[f. LEAFY a. + -NESS.] The state or condition of being leafy.
1627. Lisander & Cal., I. 5. Solitarinesse perpetually resides there in the shadow of an impenitrable leafinesse.
1652. Cotterell, Cassandra, I. (1676), 1/1. Trees whose thick leafiness cast a very pleasing shade.
1844. Mrs. Browning, Vision Poets, Concl. iv. While up the leafiness profound A wind … Stood ready to blow on me when I turned that way.
1863. Bates, Nat. Amazons, xiii. (1864), 438. The margins of these streams were paradises of leafiness and verdure.
