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smotheriness

noun

Etymology

From smothery + -ness.

  1. derived from *smurōną✻
  2. derived from smorian
  3. derived from smoren
  4. inherited from smothren
  5. suffixed as smothery — “smother + y”
  6. suffixed as smotheriness — “smothery + ness”

Definitions

  1. The quality or state of being smothery.

    • In order to escape the smotheriness of a closely built up city and because it was cheaper, I lived pretty well out to the limits of Clamport […]
    • Yet already it felt to Jill and Eustace as if all their dangers in the dark and heat and general smotheriness of the earth must have been only a dream.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for smotheriness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA