drawnness

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search

English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

drawn +‎ -ness

Noun[edit]

drawnness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being drawn.
    • 1922?, Courtney Ryley Cooper, The White Desert (page 238)
      And this in spite of the fact that the black rings of fatigue were about her eyes, that the pretty, smoothly rounded features had the suggestion of drawnness, that the lips, when they ceased to move, settled into the slightest bit of a droop.