amphibiousness (amfibiusnes)

The quality of being amphibious; ability to live in two elements; participation in two natures. amphibium (am-fib'i-um), n.; pl. amphibia (-a). [NL. (also written amphibion, Thus is man that great and true amphibium , whose nature is disposed to live not only like other creatures in divers elements, but in divided and distinguished worlds. Sir T. Browne, Religio Medici, i. 34. The children, each one armed with the curved rib of some big amphibion , are playing ball and bat among the drifts. Kane , Sec. Grinn. Exp., II. 133.