smoulderingness
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From smouldering + -ness.
Noun
[edit]smoulderingness (uncountable)
- The state of smouldering.
- 1848, James Russell Lowell, The Biglow Papers:
- Whether any of our national peculiarities may be traced to our use of stoves, as a certain closeness of the lips in pronunciation, and a smothered smoulderingness of disposition […]