nightfulness
nightfulness noun: the state of being nightful.
Noun
nightfulness (uncountable)
- The state of being nightful.
- He feels such delightfulness, stay out all-nightfulness, may I get tightfulness, / Which none can explain.1894 April, chapter XIX, in A New England Woman, The Socrates Publishing Company, page 133
- They had thought themselves / in Hawaii when suddenly the pines, / trembling with nightfulness, / shook them out of their sibyllance.1967 [1957], Frank O'Hara, “Romanze, or The Musical Students”, in Meditations in an Emergency, 2nd edition, Grove Press, page 20
Examples of nightfulness in a sentence
- “And as this nightfulness appears to thin with distance, it should be entirely possible to pinpoint its epicenter?2016 September, Sarah Porter, Vassa in the Night, Tom Doherty Associates, page 163:
- Tonight the crescent moon is on its back / facing the darkness and I know that feeling / of nightfulness and the half ring it leaves / like part of a cupmark on a walnut table […]2017, Julia McCarthy, “A Stab in the Dark”, in All the Names Between, Brick Books, page 5:
Origin of nightfulness
From nightful + -ness.
Questions about nightfulness
- What does nightfulness mean?
- Nightfulness means the state of being nightful.
- How do you use nightfulness in a sentence?
- “And as this nightfulness appears to thin with distance, it should be entirely possible to pinpoint its epicenter?
- What part of speech is nightfulness?
- Nightfulness is a noun.
Words near nightfulness in the dictionary
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