comfortableness

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English

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Etymology

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From comfortable +‎ -ness.

Noun

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comfortableness (usually uncountable, plural comfortablenesses)

  1. Comfort: the quality or state of being comfortable.
    • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:
      I was only alive to the condensed confidential comfortableness of sharing a pipe and a blanket with a real friend.
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