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Tearfulness

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being tearful. uncountable, usually

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

  2. 2
    sadness expressed by weeping wordnet

Etymology

From tearful + -ness.

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