tearfulness

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English

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Etymology

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From tearful +‎ -ness.

Noun

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tearfulness (usually uncountable, plural tearfulnesses)

  1. The quality of being tearful.
    • 2008 March 29, Jon Pareles, “Hip-Hop Assurance, R&B Suffering”, in New York Times[1]:
      The songs built slowly with anger, ache, tearfulness and fury, with sustained notes and cascading melismas.
    • 6 May 2023, Rachel Cooke, “It was ludicrous but also magnificent: the coronation stirred every emotion”, in The Guardian[2]:
      I confess to tearfulness when Charles, now in a plain linen shirt, knelt before the altar

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