smoulderingness
English
Etymology
smouldering + -ness
Noun
smoulderingness (uncountable)
- The state of smouldering.
- 1848, James Russell Lowell, The Biglow Papers
- Whether any of our national peculiarities may be traced to our use of stoves, as a certain closeness of the lips in pronunciation, and a smothered smoulderingness of disposition […]
- 1848, James Russell Lowell, The Biglow Papers