lamentableness en · NOUN
Etymology
From lamentable + -ness.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The state or characteristic of being lamentable.
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