foundedness

English

Etymology

From founded +‎ -ness.

Noun

foundedness (uncountable)

1. The state of being founded.
   • 1999, Seamus Heaney, “Introduction”, in Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page xix:

     [B]ecause of the centuries he has spent dormant in the tumulus, there is a foundedness as well as a lambency about him.

Related terms

• well-foundedness