submergedness

English

Noun

submergedness (uncountable)

  1. The state of being submerged.
    • 1930, Henry Handel Richardson, The Fortunes of Richard Mahony, 2012, The Text Publishing Company, page 837,
      More: he now yearned as avidly for this submergedness, this union of all things living, as he had hitherto shrunk from it.
    • 1990, Michael Steppat, Chances of Mischief, Böhlau Verlag, page 327,
      […] and utilizing also the nuanced effects achieved through submergedness, textual mobility becomes a determinant force curtailing individualistic efforts at self-demarcation—both of finite narrative structures and of extrafictional subjects.
    • 2012, Gardner Dozois, The Visible Man and other stories, Berkley Publishing Corporation, unnumbered page,
      […] indicates that for all his Dostoievskian submergedness he is becoming a member of the inner circle, a wielder of power, and it is an odd paradox that must afford him some amusement as he guns down the roaches.
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