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smolderingness

smolderingness is the alternative form of smoulderingness.

Meaning of smoulderingness

Noun

smoulderingness (uncountable)

  1. The state of smouldering.
    • Whether any of our national peculiarities may be traced to our use of stoves, as a certain closeness of the lips in pronunciation, and a smothered smoulderingness of disposition[…]1848, James Russell Lowell, The Biglow Papers

Origin of smolderingness

From smoldering + -ness.

Questions about smolderingness

What is smolderingness the alternative form of?
Smolderingness is the alternative form of smoulderingness.

Words near smolderingness in the dictionary

  1. smoldered
  2. smolderer
  3. smolderers
  4. smoldering
  5. smolderingly
  6. smolderingness
  7. smolderings
  8. smolders
  9. Smolen
  10. Smolenice
  11. Smolens

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