smotheriness
English
Noun
smotheriness (uncountable)
- The quality or state of being smothery.
- 1892, "An Allegory of a Water Cooler," in The Station Agent, Cleveland, Ohio, Vol. VII, April 1892,
- In order to escape the smotheriness of a closely built up city and because it was cheaper, I lived pretty well out to the limits of Clamport […]
- 1953, C. S. Lewis, The Silver Chair, Collins, 1998, Chapter 15,
- Yet already it felt to Jill and Eustace as if all their dangers in the dark and heat and general smotheriness of the earth must have been only a dream.
- 1892, "An Allegory of a Water Cooler," in The Station Agent, Cleveland, Ohio, Vol. VII, April 1892,
References
- smotheriness in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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