different between roseless vs roseness

English

rose +? -less

roseless (not comparable)

rose +? -ness

roseness (uncountable)

(philosophy) The quality of being a rose (type of flower).
- 2015, Loren Berengere, Infinity and the Supermen (page 367)
  […] the ruling idea being that the knower cannot know the sensible things, but can only know the unchanging Forms of the things, and Plato means that there can be no rose absent roseness, for roseness makes a rose be a rose.

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