unsmilingness

English

Etymology

From unsmiling +‎ -ness.

Noun

unsmilingness (uncountable)

1. The absence of a smile.
   • 1887, Henry Ward Beecher, A summer in England with Henry Ward Beecher:

     Now, sobriety does not mean unsmilingness. A man can be just as sober when he smiles as when he does not.

   • 1978, Jane Gardam, God on the Rocks, Abacus, published 2014, page 129:

     Unsmilingness is not necessarily blameworthy.