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smoulderingness en · NOUN

Etymology

From smouldering + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The state of smouldering.
    • Whether any of our national peculiarities may be traced to our use of stoves, as a certain closeness of the lips in pronunciation, and a smothered smoulderingness of disposition[…] 1848, James Russell Lowell, The Biglow Papers: