rumness

In a hazy, fossil-like way he perceives that to a young girl's mind the "rumness" of a second husband is exactly proportionate to the readiness of its acceptance of the first.

Somehow Good William Frend De Morgan 1878

It was being borne in upon me just how tremendously rum this place was; it was, so to speak, inundated by a sense of rumness.

Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells Herbert George 2006

Placing the doll on the table he descended slowly to the dining-room, pondering on the rumness of little toads.

On Forsyte 'Change 2004

Yet even such young men are capable of finding the rumness of strange towns a passable enough lark, to say nothing of the general unexpectedness of life.

The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

But the recurring explosion became for him the voice of the particular rumness of the fanatical old border town -- of fierce sun, terrific smells, snapping dogs, and scowling people.

The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

It was being borne in upon me just how tremendously rum this place was; it was, so to speak, inundated by a sense of rumness.

The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories 1906

"Mr. Dodd," he replied, "you see something of the rumness of this job, but not the whole.

The Wrecker 1898