disappointedness
English
Etymology
disappointed + -ness
Noun
disappointedness (uncountable)
- The feeling or quality of being disappointed.
- Synonym: disappointment
- 1885, W. G. Wills, Melchior, London: Macmillan, Part 9, p. 199,
- […] The pity came,
- When on her brow, that little trouble-dint,
- Or the mouth drooped in disappointedness.
- 1957, Muriel Spark, The Comforters, New York: Avon, Part 2, Chapter 8, p. 185,
- It was on this occasion that, suppressing his disappointedness, he asked her amicably […]