lamentableness

English

Etymology

lamentable +‎ -ness

Noun

lamentableness (uncountable)

  1. The state or characteristic of being lamentable.
    • 1910, William Dean Howells, Imaginary Interviews, The Whirl of Life in Our First Circles:
      "If our fiction took it on the human ground, and ascertained its inner pathos, its real lamentableness, it might do a very good thing with those clubmen and society girls and grandes dames."

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