smilingness

English

Etymology

smiling +‎ -ness

Noun

smilingness (uncountable)

1. The quality or state of being smiling.
   • 1812–1818, Lord Byron, “(please specify |canto=I to IV)”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. A Romaunt, London: Printed for John Murray, […]; William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and John Cumming, Dublin; by Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, (please specify the stanza number):

     […] Had made despair a smilingness assume.

Translations

quality or state of being smiling

• Latvian: smaidīgums

References

“smilingness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.