drawnness
drawnness noun: the quality of being drawn.
Noun
drawnness (uncountable)
- The quality of being drawn.
- And this in spite of the fact that the black rings of fatigue were about her eyes, that the pretty, smoothly rounded features had the suggestion of drawnness, that the lips, when they ceased to move, settled into the slightest bit of a droop.1922?, Courtney Ryley Cooper, The White Desert (page 238)
Origin of drawnness
From drawn + -ness.
Questions about drawnness
- What does drawnness mean?
- Drawnness means the quality of being drawn.
- What part of speech is drawnness?
- Drawnness is a noun.
Words near drawnness in the dictionary
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