poutiness

English

Etymology

pouty +‎ -ness

Noun

poutiness (uncountable)

1. The quality of being pouty.
   • 1853, John Pierce Brace, chapter 18, in The Fawn of the Pale Faces‎^[1], New York: D. Appleton, page 144:

     The rose may leave your cheek, the rich, red poutiness of your lip may fade into whiteness, the large and lustrous eye may grow languid in its hidden grief, but the soul will not lose its tyrant passion.

   • 1921, Arthur Stringer, chapter 2, in The Wine of Life‎^[2], New York: Knopf, page 23:

     the over-full upper lip which left a somewhat incongruous impression of child-like poutiness upon her face

   • 2016, Shobha Rao, “The Road to Mirpur Khas”, in An Unrestored Woman‎^[3], London: Virago, page 174:

     She didn’t talk to me for the rest of the night. And though I laughed at her poutiness, in the end she was right […]