tearfulness
English
Etymology
tearful + -ness
Noun
tearfulness (usually uncountable, plural tearfulnesses)
- The quality of being tearful.
- 2008 March 29, Jon Pareles, “Hip-Hop Assurance, R&B Suffering”, in New York Times:
- The songs built slowly with anger, ache, tearfulness and fury, with sustained notes and cascading melismas.
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Translations
quality of being tearful
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