unsmilingness
English
Etymology
From unsmiling + -ness.
Noun
unsmilingness (uncountable)
- The absence of a smile.
- 1887, Henry Ward Beecher, A summer in England with Henry Ward Beecher:
- Now, sobriety does not mean unsmilingness. A man can be just as sober when he smiles as when he does not.
- 1978, Jane Gardam, God on the Rocks, Abacus 2014, p. 129:
- Unsmilingness is not necessarily blameworthy.
- 1887, Henry Ward Beecher, A summer in England with Henry Ward Beecher: