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单词 soothingness
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soothingnessn.

Etymology: formed as soothing adj. + -ness suffix.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsoothingness.
rare.
The quality or character of being soothing; a soothing property or feature.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > state of being consoled or relieved > [noun] > quality of being consoling or relieving
comfortablenessa1586
soothingness1818
1818 S. T. Coleridge Lett. (1895) II. 692 She is goodnatured, lively, innocent, but without a soothingness, or something I do not know what that is tender.
1876 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. 2nd Ser. 179 In all this there is soothingness indeed, but no slumberous monotony.
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