Meanings
nounsmotheriness (uncountable)
- uncountableThe quality or state of being smothery.
In order to escape the smotheriness of a closely built up city and because it was cheaper, I lived pretty well out to the limits of Clamport […]
1892 April, “An Allegory of a Water Cooler”, in The Station Agent, volume VII, Cleveland, Ohio1 more example
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.
1953, C. S. Lewis, chapter 15, in The Silver Chair, Collins, published 1998
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