ˈrootiness
[f. rooty a.]
The quality of being rooty. Also fig. Cf. raciness.
| 1804 Trans. Soc. Arts XXII. 351 Its extreme rootiness may perhaps be occasioned by the hemp growing too thin on the land. 1937 G. M. Young Daylight & Champaign 193 Here is exactly the harshness and rootiness, the integrity and objectivity that our poetry needed. |