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lamentableness

lamentableness noun: the state or characteristic of being lamentable.

Noun

lamentableness (uncountable)

  1. The state or characteristic of being lamentable.
    • 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.1910, William Dean Howells, Imaginary Interviews, The Whirl of Life in Our First Circles
    Synonyms:
    lamentability

Synonyms of lamentableness

Origin of lamentableness

From lamentable + -ness.

Questions about lamentableness

What does lamentableness mean?
Lamentableness means the state or characteristic of being lamentable.
What part of speech is lamentableness?
Lamentableness is a noun.

Words near lamentableness in the dictionary

  1. lamenesses
  2. lament
  3. Lament.
  4. lamentability
  5. lamentable
  6. lamentableness
  7. lamentably
  8. lamentacious
  9. lamentation
  10. lamentational
  11. lamentations

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