longness

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The longness or shortness of a syllable another.

From A Handbook of the English Language by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)

And the longness or shortness of a vowel or syllable is said to be its quantity.

From A Handbook of the English Language by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)

You see, the shortness or longness of them makes the difference in the notes, and the distance between gives the time.

From A Terrible Tomboy by Brazil, Angela

His coat should be lengthened, as in sketch go, to cut off just as much of the longness of limb as can possibly be allowed without destroying artistic proportions.

From What Dress Makes of Us by Quigley, Dorothy

Her face, as I have said, was long and thin, but it was the longness and thinness of growing youth.

From Castle Richmond by Trollope, Anthony