lamentableness
English
Etymology
lamentable + -ness
Noun
lamentableness (uncountable)
- The state or characteristic of being lamentable.
- 1910, William Dean Howells, Imaginary Interviews, The Whirl of Life in Our First Circles:
- "If our fiction took it on the human ground, and ascertained its inner pathos, its real lamentableness, it might do a very good thing with those clubmen and society girls and grandes dames."
- 1910, William Dean Howells, Imaginary Interviews, The Whirl of Life in Our First Circles:
Synonyms
References
- “lamentableness”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.