heartsomeness
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heartsomeness (uncountable)
- The state, quality, or condition of being heartsome.
- 1872, Elijah Kellogg, The Sophomores of Radcliffe: Or, James Trafton and His Bosom Friends:
- […] but she always sighed for the good old days, and maintained that there was not such heartsomeness in the intercourse of the people as among the neighbors at the Gore.