comfortableness

American  

[kuhm-fer-tuh-buhl-nis, kuhmf-ter-buhl-nis] / ˈkʌm fər tə bəl nɪs, ˈkʌmf tər bəl nɪs /

Also comfortability

noun

1. 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.

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Etymology

Origin of comfortableness

comfortable ( def. ) + -ness ( def. )

Example Sentences

I think there’s a range of comfortableness in a voice.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2025

"But that comfortableness gets tested on Friday morning."

From BBC • Sep. 11, 2024

“I was falling in love. I was having a more consistent feeling of comfortableness in my body in a way that I had never had,” Schoenbrun says.

From Seattle Times • May 1, 2024

The governor said provisions in the criminal code on this issue had been altered from an earlier, stricter version so "would provide a better guarantee of everyone's privacy and comfortableness."

From Reuters • Dec. 12, 2022

Surpass, ye higher men, the petty virtues, the petty policy, the sand-grain considerateness, the ant-hill trumpery, the pitiable comfortableness, the "happiness of the greatest number"—!

From Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm