Fromsouth +‎-ness.

southness (countable anduncountable,pluralsouthnesses)

1. A tendency in the end of amagneticneedle to point toward thesouth pole.
   • 1852,Michael Faraday,On the Physical Character of the Lines of Magnetic Force:

     an absolute northness orsouthness

“southness”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.

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