Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for SOUND'NESS
SOUND'NESS, n.
- Wholeness; entireness; an unbroken, unimpaired or undecayed state; as, the soundness of timber, of fruit, of the teeth, of a limb, &c. [See Sοund.]
- An unimpaired state of an animal or vegetable body; a state in which the organs are entire and regularly perform their functions. We say, the soundness of the body, the soundness of the constitution, the soundness of health.
- Firmness; strength; solidity; truth; as, soundness of reasoning or argument, of doctrine or principles.
- Truth; rectitude; firmness; freedom from error or fallacy; orthodoxy; as, soundness of faith.
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