Lamentableness

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The state or characteristic of being lamentable. uncountable

    "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."

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"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."

Etymology

From lamentable + -ness.

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