ashiness

ashiness

English

Etymology

ashy +‎ -ness

Noun

ashiness (uncountable)

1. The quality of being ashy.
   • 1901, Onoto Watanna, A Japanese Nightingale, New York: Harper, Chapter 13, p. 148,

     Jack Bigelow’s usually sunny face was bleached to the ashiness of fear and despair.

   • 2004, Marilynne Robinson, Gilead, Toronto: HarperCollins, p. 49,

     […] there was an ashiness about his clothes and his hair never settled and his eye had a look of tragic alarm when he wasn’t actually sleeping.

Anagrams

• Hessians, hessians