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tearfulness en · NOUN

Etymology

From tearful + -ness.

Meanings

1. (uncountable, usually) The quality of being tearful.
   • The songs built slowly with anger, ache, tearfulness and fury, with sustained notes and cascading melismas. 2008 March 29, Jon Pareles, “Hip-Hop Assurance, R&B Suffering”, in New York Times:
   • I confess to tearfulness when Charles, now in a plain linen shirt, knelt before the altar 6 May 2023, Rachel Cooke, “It was ludicrous but also magnificent: the coronation stirred every emotion”, in The Guardian:

Forms

Translations (2)

lv raudulība (quality of being tearful) · lv raudulīgums (quality of being tearful)