murmurousness en · NOUN
Etymology
From murmurous + -ness.
Meanings
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(uncountable) Quality of being murmurous.
For the third time I played hell with the bell. As I lay waiting I could hear a sort of murmurousness beyond the door. It seemed composed of whimperings, slitherings, and shufflings, punctuated occasionally by a raised voice in the distance.
1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 14: