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smotheriness en · NOUN

Etymology

From smothery + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The quality or state of being smothery.
    • Yet already it felt to Jill and Eustace as if all their dangers in the dark and heat and general smotheriness of the earth must have been only a dream. 1953, C. S. Lewis, chapter 15, in The Silver Chair, Collins, published 1998:
    • In order to escape the smotheriness of a closely built up city and because it was cheaper, I lived pretty well out to the limits of Clamport […] 1892 April, “An Allegory of a Water Cooler”, in The Station Agent, volume VII, Cleveland, Ohio: