tearful
adjective
full of tears; weeping.
tearfulness
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a word derived from
tearful.
Example Sentences
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Rob Whittaker, a consultant clinical psychologist, says waves of tearfulness among Covid-19 survivors are very common and there is "an emerging picture" regarding cognitive difficulties, such as Molly's problems with her memory.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2020
In a role originally proposed to Angelina Jolie, Johansson grows from grad-student tearfulness to appropriate a good deal of Jolie’s glowering majesty, and to show all appropriate stages along the way.
From Time ● Jul. 25, 2014
Instead, body symptoms like aches and pains, fatigue, and slowness present as can tearfulness, unrealistic feelings of guilt, isolation and irritability.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 10, 2013
She ends with a plea for gay rights and equal marriage, the tearfulness of which seems incongruous, but whose validity – the more so after an hour in Calman's company – is screamingly obvious.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 17, 2012
I no longer feel the sinking in my gut, the held-back tearfulness that such a false accusation would once have produced.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
