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comfortableness

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state of being comfortable.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun State of being comfortable.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Comfort: the quality or state of being comfortable.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a feeling of being at ease in a relationship
  • noun a state of being relaxed and feeling no pain

Etymologies

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From comfortable +‎ -ness.

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Examples

  • When I met my husband-to-be we had that "comfortableness" on the very first night.

    2000-01-16 09:30:55 nueces 2000

  • I told him many times that I just didn't have "comfortableness" with him.

    2000-01-16 09:30:55 nueces 2000

  • When Jonas was certain that the garage door had shut and his wife's car had exited the driveway, he immediately rushed back to the bay window and watched as Reynold rose from the comfortableness of the plush shaded seat under the tree and strutted confidently to his shiny black Audi.

    The Fallen Oak Nathaniel Tower 2011

  • I love her novels for the same sort of comfortableness -- but in a British way.

    My new secret boyfriend Roger Sutton 2009

  • I want to say thank you for this article which gives me another reminder to treasure my friends for their uniquenesses, honesty, and comfortableness with being genuine even in public.

    Open Letter to Ivor Tossell, Globe and Mail da_lj 2009

  • Some of the comfortableness feels uncomfortable - how the son used his money and privilege as a lever to work through bureaucracy, a perfectly obvious decision that I would probably make as well, in the same circumstance as him.

    Social Weekend da_lj 2008

  • He describes a similar shift a bit more sardonically, saying that his relationship has settled into a state of "depressing comfortableness."

    Douglas LaBier: Recharge a Declining Relationship Through "Indifference" 2010

  • He describes a similar shift a bit more sardonically, saying that his relationship has settled into a state of "depressing comfortableness."

    Douglas LaBier: Recharge a Declining Relationship Through "Indifference" 2010

  • We may or may not "rebound" from this crisis -- that is to say, find our way back to a sort of middle-class comfortableness relatively free of anxiety -- but what we will do is slowly continue to be transformed by it.

    Printing: Getting the Scoop from Nationally Syndicated Journalist Bob Koehler 2009

  • We may or may not "rebound" from this crisis -- that is to say, find our way back to a sort of middle-class comfortableness relatively free of anxiety -- but what we will do is slowly continue to be transformed by it.

    Getting the Scoop from Nationally Syndicated Journalist Bob Koehler 2009

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