wambliness

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English

Etymology

From wambly +‎ -ness.

Noun

wambliness (uncountable)

  1. The quality or state of being wambly.
    • 1900, Eden Phillpotts, Sons of the Morning:
      By rights 'tis the dooty of Churdles Ash, but he'm an ancient piece wi'out gert store o' words best o' times, an' none for a moment such as this; so he've axed me to speak instead, 'cause it do bring him a wambliness of the innards to do or say ought as may draw the public upon un.
    • 1967 April, Karl A. Olsson, “What Is a Hospital”, in Barnes Hospital Bulletin, volume 21, number 4:
      It is the smooth motion of a sheeled stretcher, the tiny prick of pain to do battle against the avalanche of pain, the sense of support and care in the team of doctors and nurses gathering around your problem; it is the bliss of terror of anesthesia, and the stern salvation of surgery, and the fumbling back into consciousness on a hard mattress; it is the wambliness of the hours after; the nurse who will not come into focus, a cool hand on an arm which doesn't belong to you, a cheerfulness you cannot share, a drag, a wearieness, and enless thirst and the first goo hunger and gleam of morning through the window and the intrasion of the bath and the horror of the bedpan; it is twelve jonquils and a get well card and it is a rush of verses from the Psalter and Isaiah and John; it is a Sunday School song which beats in your tired brain and a chemistry formula which will not fade; it is to be dead, finished, kaput, washed up, and it is to be made alive again.
    • 2014, Dragan Ðuricin, Iva Vuksanovic, “Determinants of National (Un)Competitiveness: Lessons for Policy Makers in Serbia”, in An Enterprise Odyssey. International Conference Proceedings:
      The quality of roads, railroads and air transport is still low but with marginal improvements. Pillar (Macroeconomic environment) expresses significant wambliness both in score and rank.