Hypertext Webster Gateway: "plaintiveness"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Plaintive \Plain"tive\, a. [F. plaintif. See {Plaintiff}, n.]
1. Repining; complaining; lamenting. --Dryden.
2. Expressive of sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad. ``The
most plaintive ditty.'' --Landor. -- {Plain"tive*ly}, adv.
-- {Plain"tive*ness}, n.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
plaintiveness
n : expressing sorrowfulness
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