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PLAINTIVENESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does plaintiveness mean?
• PLAINTIVENESS (noun)
The noun PLAINTIVENESS has 1 sense:
1. expressing sorrowfulness
Familiarity information: PLAINTIVENESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Expressing sorrowfulness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Hypernyms ("plaintiveness" is a kind of...):
mournfulness; ruthfulness; sorrowfulness (a state of gloomy sorrow)
Derivation:
plaintive (expressing sorrow)
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