tearfulness
tearfulness noun: the quality of being tearful.
Noun
tearfulness (usually uncountable, plural tearfulnesses)
- The quality of being tearful.
- The songs built slowly with anger, ache, tearfulness and fury, with sustained notes and cascading melismas.2008 March 29, Jon Pareles, “Hip-Hop Assurance, R&B Suffering”, in New York Times
- I confess to tearfulness when Charles, now in a plain linen shirt, knelt before the altar6 May 2023, Rachel Cooke, “It was ludicrous but also magnificent: the coronation stirred every emotion”, in The Guardian
tearfulness meaning in Hindi
tearfulness in Hindi
- tearfulness
- रुआस ruās
Forms of tearfulness
| plural | tearfulnesses |
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Origin of tearfulness
From tearful + -ness.
Questions about tearfulness
- What does tearfulness mean?
- Tearfulness means the quality of being tearful.
- What is tearfulness in Hindi?
- Tearfulness in Hindi is रुआस (ruās). See Tearfulness meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is tearfulness?
- Tearfulness is a noun.
- What is the plural of tearfulness?
- The plural of tearfulness is tearfulnesses.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: tearfulness (page history and authors); रुआस (Hindi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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