tearfulness

English

Etymology

tearful +‎ -ness

Noun

tearfulness (usually uncountable, plural tearfulnesses)

1. The quality of being tearful.
   • 2008 March 29, Jon Pareles, “Hip-Hop Assurance, R&B Suffering”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     The songs built slowly with anger, ache, tearfulness and fury, with sustained notes and cascading melismas.

   • 6 May 2023, Rachel Cooke, “It was ludicrous but also magnificent: the coronation stirred every emotion”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     I confess to tearfulness when Charles, now in a plain linen shirt, knelt before the altar

Translations

quality of being tearful

• Latvian: raudulīgums m, raudulība f