Tearfulness
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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 sadness expressed by weeping wordnet
Example
More examples"The songs built slowly with anger, ache, tearfulness and fury, with sustained notes and cascading melismas."
Etymology
From tearful + -ness.