tragicness en · NOUN
Etymology
Etymology tree English tragic Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English tragicness From tragic + -ness.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The state or quality of being tragic.
Those people inclined towards Nietzscheanism (and there were quite a few among Freud's admirers) preferred to speak rather of the “tragicness of psychical life.”
2014, Valentin Voloshinov, Freudianism: A Marxist Critique, Verso Books, →ISBN:
Translations (4)
pt tragicidade (state or quality of being tragic) · nl tragiek (state or quality of being tragic) · de Tragik (state or quality of being tragic) · fi traagisuus (state or quality of being tragic)