tearfulness
- 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
Lightly soulful as she trembles between tearfulness and merriment, she looks, in knickerbockers and buckled shoes, like an older version of the boy in When Did You Last See Your Father?
From The Guardian ● Jan. 23, 2011
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
