smotheriness

English

Etymology

smothery +‎ -ness

Noun

smotheriness (uncountable)

1. The quality or state of being smothery.
   • 1892 April, “An Allegory of a Water Cooler”, in The Station Agent‎^[1], volume VII, Cleveland, Ohio:

     In order to escape the smotheriness of a closely built up city and because it was cheaper, I lived pretty well out to the limits of Clamport […]

   • 1953, C. S. Lewis, chapter 15, in The Silver Chair, Collins, published 1998:

     Yet already it felt to Jill and Eustace as if all their dangers in the dark and heat and general smotheriness of the earth must have been only a dream.

References

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