Meanings
nounpitifulness (usually uncountable, plural pitifulnesses)
plural pitifulnesses
- uncountableusuallyThe state or quality of being pitiful.
He had definitely shed the pitifulness of his childhood.
1920, Katharine Newlin Burt, Hidden Creek1 more example
The Jugurtha of the same author is in an exactly similar way designed partly to expose the pitifulness of the oligarchic government, partly to glorify the Coryphaeus of the democracy, Gaius Marius.
1854, Theodor Mommsen, The History of Rome, Book V
Origin
Cite this entry
APA
pitifulness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pitifulness
MLA
“pitifulness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pitifulness. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pitifulness,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pitifulness.
Source: pitifulness on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.