lamentableness
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
lamentable + -ness
Noun[edit]
lamentableness (uncountable)
- The state or characteristic of being lamentable.
- 1910, William Dean Howells, Imaginary Interviews, The Whirl of Life in Our First Circles:
- "If our fiction took it on the human ground, and ascertained its inner pathos, its real lamentableness, it might do a very good thing with those clubmen and society girls and grandes dames."
- 1910, William Dean Howells, Imaginary Interviews, The Whirl of Life in Our First Circles:
Synonyms[edit]
References[edit]
- “lamentableness”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.