haggardness

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English

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Etymology

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From haggard +‎ -ness.

Noun

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haggardness (uncountable)

  1. The characteristic of being haggard; tiredness.

, The Shadow King, Canongate Books (2020), page 340:

His father is stoic and dutiful, and there is a haggardness around his eyes that lends him the air of a tortured poet.
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