Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state of being smothery.

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

  • noun The quality or state of being smothery.

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  • noun The quality or state of being smothery.

Etymologies

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smothery +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • 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.

    The Silver Chair Lewis, C. S. 1953

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