Salutariness

Origin

salutary + -ness

Full definition of salutariness

Noun

1. The state of being salutary
• 1907, Alexander Smith, Dreamthorp Chapter , It is true that the spectacle is painful, horrible; but in pain and horror there is often hidden a certain salutariness, and the repulsion of which we are conscious is as likely to arise from debilitation of public nerve, as from a higher reach of public feeling.