disappointedness
English
editEtymology
editFrom disappointed + -ness.
Noun
editdisappointedness (uncountable)
- The feeling or quality of being disappointed.
- Synonym: disappointment
- 1885, W. G. Wills, Melchior[1], London: Macmillan, Part 9, p. 199:
- […] The pity came,
When on her brow, that little trouble-dint,
Or the mouth drooped in disappointedness.
- 1957, Muriel Spark, The Comforters[2], New York: Avon, Part 2, Chapter 8, p. 185:
- It was on this occasion that, suppressing his disappointedness, he asked her amicably […]