different between rockiness vs rockness

English

Etymology

rocky +? -ness

Noun

rockiness (usually uncountable, plural rockinesses)

1. The state or quality of being rocky (in various senses).

   rockiness of soil

   rockiness of a relationship or the economy

   rockiness in feeling or health

   rockiness of music

Synonyms

• illness, stoniness, turbulence

Antonyms

• earthiness, stability

References

• rockiness in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• corkiness

English

Etymology

rock +? -ness

Pronunciation

Noun

rockness (uncountable)

1. The essence of what it means to be a rock; the qualities that make a rock what it is.
   • 2009, Robert C. Atchley, Spirituality and Aging, Johns Hopkins University Press (2009), ?ISBN, page 26:

     We do not have to become a rock to study rocks, but we do have to understand the nature of “rockness.”

   • 2011, Max Lucado, The Lucado Inspirational Reader: Hope and Encouragement for Your Everyday Life, Thomas Nelson (2011), ?ISBN, page 190:

     You can't impact the treeness of a tree, the skyness of the sky, or the rockness of a rock.

   • 2011, C. Alexander Simpkins & Annellen M. Simpkins, Zen Meditation in Psychotherapy: Techniques for Clinical Practice, John Wiley & Sons (2011), ?ISBN, page 99:

     He asked, how can you truly know the rockness of a rock by categorizing it? Simply dividing it into smaller pieces, weighing it, and looking at its properties may tell you a great deal about what it is like, but what it is, its essence, its rockness, escapes such analysis […]

2. (slang) The quality of music being rock music, or generally "rocking" (being excitingly good).