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tragicness

tragicness noun: the state or quality of being tragic.

Noun

tragicness (uncountable)

  1. The state or quality of being tragic.
    • Those people inclined towards Nietzscheanism (and there were quite a few among Freud's admirers) preferred to speak rather of the “tragicness of psychical life.”2014, Valentin Voloshinov, Freudianism: A Marxist Critique, Verso Books, →ISBN

Origin of tragicness

From tragic + -ness.

Questions about tragicness

What does tragicness mean?
Tragicness means the state or quality of being tragic.
What part of speech is tragicness?
Tragicness is a noun.

Words near tragicness in the dictionary

  1. tragicized
  2. tragicizes
  3. tragicizing
  4. tragick
  5. tragicly
  6. tragicness
  7. tragicofarcical
  8. tragicomedian
  9. tragicomedians
  10. tragicomedic
  11. tragicomedienne

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