smoulderingness
English edit
Etymology edit
smouldering + -ness
Noun edit
smoulderingness (uncountable)
- The state of smouldering.
- 1848, James Russell Lowell, The Biglow Papers:
- Whether any of our national peculiarities may be traced to our use of stoves, as a certain closeness of the lips in pronunciation, and a smothered smoulderingness of disposition […]