wrungness

English

Etymology

wrung +‎ -ness

Noun

wrungness (uncountable)

1. The quality of being wrung.
   • 1878, James Hinton, Ellice Hopkins, Life and Letters of James Hinton, page 273:

     There are two things awry; on the one hand, the acting for self (a distinct tension and wrungness); and, on the other, the relations of life are distorted, and made to be against the natural demands; […]

   • 2021, Dallas Willard, Renovation of the Heart, page 42:

     Our social and psychological sciences stand helpless before the terrible things done by human beings, but the warpedness and wrungness of the human will is something we cannot admit into “serious” conversation.