lamentableness

English

Etymology

lamentable +‎ -ness

Noun

lamentableness (uncountable)

1. The state or characteristic of being lamentable.
   • 1910, William Dean Howells, Imaginary Interviews, The Whirl of Life in Our First Circles:

     "If our fiction took it on the human ground, and ascertained its inner pathos, its real lamentableness, it might do a very good thing with those clubmen and society girls and grandes dames."

Synonyms

• lamentability

References

• “lamentableness”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.