ashiness
nounEtymology From ashy + -ness.
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The quality of being ashy.
- Jack Bigelow’s usually sunny face was bleached to the ashiness of fear and despair.1901, Onoto Watanna, chapter 13, in A Japanese Nightingale, New York: Harper, page 148:
- […] there was an ashiness about his clothes and his hair never settled and his eye had a look of tragic alarm when he wasn’t actually sleeping.2004, Marilynne Robinson, Gilead, Toronto: HarperCollins, page 49: