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unsmilingness en · NOUN

Etymology

From unsmiling + -ness.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) The absence of a smile.
   • Now, sobriety does not mean unsmilingness. A man can be just as sober when he smiles as when he does not. 1887, Henry Ward Beecher, A summer in England with Henry Ward Beecher:
   • Unsmilingness is not necessarily blameworthy. 1978, Jane Gardam, God on the Rocks, Abacus, published 2014, page 129: