comfortableness

comfortableness
Comfort: the quality or state of being comfortable.

I was only alive to the condensed confidential comfortableness of sharing a pipe and a blanket with a real friend.


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  • Comfortableness — Com fort*a*ble*ness, n. State of being comfortable. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • comfortableness — noun 1. a state of being relaxed and feeling no pain he is a man who enjoys his comfort she longed for the comfortableness of her armchair • Syn: ↑comfort • Ant: ↑discomfort (for: ↑comfort) …   Useful english dictionary

  • comfortableness — noun see comfortable …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • comfortableness — See comfortable. * * * …   Universalium

  • comfortableness — n. position of contentment and security, ease, convenience, well being …   English contemporary dictionary

  • comfortableness — com·fort·able·ness …   English syllables

  • comfortable — comfortableness, comfortability, n. comfortably, adv. /kumf teuh beuhl, kum feuhr teuh beuhl/, adj. 1. (of clothing, furniture, etc.) producing or affording physical comfort, support, or ease: a comfortable chair; comfortable shoes. 2. being in a …   Universalium

  • At ease — Ease Ease ([=e]z), n. [OE. ese, eise, F. aise; akin to Pr. ais, aise, OIt. asio, It. agio; of uncertain origin; cf. L. ansa handle, occasion, opportunity. Cf. {Agio}, {Disease}.] 1. Satisfaction; pleasure; hence, accommodation; entertainment.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Chapel of ease — Ease Ease ([=e]z), n. [OE. ese, eise, F. aise; akin to Pr. ais, aise, OIt. asio, It. agio; of uncertain origin; cf. L. ansa handle, occasion, opportunity. Cf. {Agio}, {Disease}.] 1. Satisfaction; pleasure; hence, accommodation; entertainment.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Ease — ([=e]z), n. [OE. ese, eise, F. aise; akin to Pr. ais, aise, OIt. asio, It. agio; of uncertain origin; cf. L. ansa handle, occasion, opportunity. Cf. {Agio}, {Disease}.] 1. Satisfaction; pleasure; hence, accommodation; entertainment. [Obs.] [1913… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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