salutariness

English

Etymology

salutary +‎ -ness

Noun

salutariness (plural salutarinesses)

1. The state of being salutary
   • 1907, Alexander Smith, Dreamthorp^[1]:

     It is true that the spectacle is painful, horrible; but in pain and horror there is often hidden a certain salutariness, and the repulsion of which we are conscious is as likely to arise from debilitation of public nerve, as from a higher reach of public feeling.