Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The quality or character of being soothing.

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  • noun The quality of being soothing.

Etymologies

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soothing +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • It had the robot accent, like an R Peed unit, the standard English of optimal soothingness long settled on as the conventional robot voice.

    Boing Boing: January 22, 2006 - January 28, 2006 Archives 2006

  • With a secret sorrow inducing sleep, soothingness?

    The Created Legend Fyodor [pseud.] Sologub 1895

  • Coolness and soothingness dropped on her as a balm from the great light, and she gazed on it murmuring, as in a memory:

    The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Complete George Meredith 1868

  • Coolness and soothingness dropped on her as a balm from the great light, and she gazed on it murmuring, as in a memory:

    The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Volume 1 George Meredith 1868

  • Coolness and soothingness dropped on her as a balm from the great light, and she gazed on it murmuring, as in a memory:

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • In all this there is soothingness indeed, but no slumberous monotony; for Spenser was no mere metrist, but

    Among My Books Second Series James Russell Lowell 1855

  • There is a default soothingness that becomes dull, and as with many bands that essentially boil down to one person, that person's vision becomes restrictive.

    NYT > Home Page By BEN RATLIFF 2012

  • He who has never stood pensive by a friend's side in such an hour of poetic dreaming can hardly understand its inexpressible soothingness.

    The Purse Honor�� de Balzac 1824

  • He who has never stood pensive by a friend’s side in such an hour of poetic dreaming can hardly understand its inexpressible soothingness.

    The Purse 2007

  • He who has never stood pensive by a friend’s side in such an hour of poetic dreaming can hardly understand its inexpressible soothingness.

    The Purse 2007

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