[f. as prec. + -NESS.] Compacted state or quality, compactness.
1622–62. Heylin, Cosmogr., I. (1682), 203. Considering the compactedness thereof within it self.
1645. Digby, Nat. Bodies, iv. (1658), 33. Sticking together of parts … or compactednesse being natural to density.
1715. Cheyne, Philos. Princ. Relig., I. iii. § 7. 119. These Atoms are suppos’d infrangible, extremely compacted and hard (as indeed the least Parts of Matter must necessarily be) which compactedness and hardness is a demonstration, that nothing could be produc’d by ’em, since being so, they could never come to cohere, in order to produce solid Bodies.
1873. J. Morley, Rousseau, II. 230. The … close compactedness of the fabric of the relations that bind man to man.
