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tearfulness

noun

Etymology

From tearful + -ness.

  1. derived from *dáḱru-✻
  2. inherited from *tahrą✻
  3. inherited from *tahr✻
  4. inherited from tēar
  5. inherited from teer — “tear”
  6. formed as tearful — “tear + -ful”
  7. suffixed as tearfulness — “tearful + ness”

Definitions

  1. The quality of being tearful.

    • The songs built slowly with anger, ache, tearfulness and fury, with sustained notes and cascading melismas.
    • I confess to tearfulness when Charles, now in a plain linen shirt, knelt before the altar

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