deathfulness

English

Etymology

From deathful +‎ -ness.

Noun

deathfulness (uncountable)

1. An appearance suggestive of death.
   • 1701, unknown author, Several letters between two ladies:

     most remote from a deathfulness, and most agreeable by their liveliness

References

• “deathfulness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.