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murmurousness

murmurousness noun: quality of being murmurous.

Noun

murmurousness (uncountable)

  1. Quality of being murmurous.
    • For the third time I played hell with the bell. As I lay waiting I could hear a sort of murmurousness beyond the door. It seemed composed of whimperings, slitherings, and shufflings, punctuated occasionally by a raised voice in the distance.1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 14

Origin of murmurousness

From murmurous + -ness.

Questions about murmurousness

What does murmurousness mean?
Murmurousness means quality of being murmurous.
What part of speech is murmurousness?
Murmurousness is a noun.

Words near murmurousness in the dictionary

  1. murmurish
  2. murmurless
  3. murmurlessly
  4. murmurous
  5. murmurously
  6. murmurousness
  7. murmurs
  8. Murnane
  9. Murnanes
  10. Murngic
  11. Murngin

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