ashiness

English

Etymology

From ashy +‎ -ness.

Noun

ashiness (uncountable)

1. The quality of being ashy.
   • 1901, Onoto Watanna, chapter 13, in A Japanese Nightingale‎^[1], New York: Harper, page 148:

     Jack Bigelow’s usually sunny face was bleached to the ashiness of fear and despair.

   • 2004, Marilynne Robinson, Gilead‎^[2], Toronto: HarperCollins, page 49:

     […] there was an ashiness about his clothes and his hair never settled and his eye had a look of tragic alarm when he wasn’t actually sleeping.

Anagrams

• Hessians, hessians