steeliness
Toughness, hardness or durability resembling that of steelToughness, hardness or durability resembling (or likened to) that of steel.
Meaning
1 senses(uncountable)Toughness, hardness or durability resembling (or likened to) that of steel.
He had a steeliness of eye that tended to cow people who acted tough.
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.