searching
adjective
examining carefully or thoroughly.
searchingness
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a word derived from
searching.
Example Sentences
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In the set of a jaw or the searchingness of a squint you could make out the parched rangeland or the old copper pit or the vanishing farm jobs.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2023
All those artists shared “a vulnerability, and rawness and searchingness that is starting to produce really interesting art,” she added.
From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2022
DeMarco’s music is exceedingly pleasant, but it’s often saturated with a jaunty sort of sadness — of love lost, aging, general searchingness.
From Salon ● May 7, 2017
He came across the floor very quickly with a finger on his lips, looking at me with a peculiar searchingness of gaze.
From Three John Silence Stories by Algernon Blackwood
It was a priestly face, saw Monsignor, with all the power and searchingness of one who can deal with living souls; but the face of a fallen priest.
From Dawn of All by Robert Hugh Benson
