Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of swimming; an appearance of swimming; especially, tearfulness; a melting look.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Act or state of swimming; suffusion.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Act or state of
swimming ;suffusion .
Etymologies
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swimming + -ness
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Examples
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His eyes were black too, but had nothing of fierce or insolent; on the contrary, a certain melancholy swimmingness, that described hopeless love rather than a natural amorous languish.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 Horace Walpole 1757
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