dinginess

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English

Etymology

dingy +‎ -ness

Pronunciation

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Noun

dinginess (usually uncountable, plural dinginesses)

  1. The state or quality of being dingy.
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    • 1918, Booth Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons, Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co., Chapter 31, p. 437,[1]
      The streets were thunderous; a vast energy heaved under the universal coating of dinginess.
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