comfortableness

[ kuhm-fer-tuh-buhl-nis, kuhmf-ter-buhl-nis ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

the quality of being comfortable or of affording ease or comfort, whether physical or emotional:
These pants are made of smooth pure cotton for optimum comfortableness and movability.
In the film, the conversation about sexuality took place in such a non-shaming way—I loved the comfortableness between the girl and her mother.

It is a moral frost which no physical warmth or comfortableness could 68 counteract.

Such comfortableness went too deep, was too much settled, too heavy, to make it thinkable that it should ever really be disturbed.

I was only alive to the condensed confidential comfortableness of sharing a pipe and a blanket with a real friend.

And gently she removed her hat and gown, and her gestures and speech, and her comfortableness, from those august precincts.

There was an air of large comfortableness about Goshmeelee which was very pleasant to contemplate on a damp night.

April 24, 2024gallimaufry

[gal-uh-maw-free ]

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