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smotheriness

smotheriness noun: the quality or state of being smothery.

Noun

smotheriness (uncountable)

  1. The quality or state of being smothery.
    • In order to escape the smotheriness of a closely built up city and because it was cheaper, I lived pretty well out to the limits of Clamport […]1892 April, “An Allegory of a Water Cooler”, in The Station Agent, volume VII, Cleveland, Ohio
    • Yet already it felt to Jill and Eustace as if all their dangers in the dark and heat and general smotheriness of the earth must have been only a dream.1953, C. S. Lewis, chapter 15, in The Silver Chair, Collins, published 1998

Origin of smotheriness

From smothery + -ness.

Questions about smotheriness

What does smotheriness mean?
Smotheriness means the quality or state of being smothery.
What part of speech is smotheriness?
Smotheriness is a noun.

Words near smotheriness in the dictionary

  1. smothered mates
  2. smotherer
  3. smotherers
  4. smotherest
  5. smothereth
  6. smotheriness
  7. smothering
  8. smotheringly
  9. smotherings
  10. Smotherman
  11. Smothermans

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