• Lamentableness

    Full definition of lamentableness

    Noun

    lamentableness

    (uncountable)
    1. The state or characteristic of being lamentable.
      • 1910, William Dean Howells, Imaginary Interviews, The Whirl of Life in Our First Circles:"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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