tearfulness
noun
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noun
Etymology: From tearful + -ness.
- The quality of being tearful.
“The songs built slowly with anger, ache, tearfulness and fury, with sustained notes and cascading melismas.”
“I confess to tearfulness when Charles, now in a plain linen shirt, knelt before the altar”