confidingness

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

confiding +‎ -ness

Noun[edit]

confidingness (uncountable)

  1. The state or quality of being confiding.
    • 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC:
      Birds of every kind abounded, and these it was our delight to pursue, with stones and clods of earth. Robins, in particular, thanks to their confidingness, we destroyed in great numbers.
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