murmurousness

noun

murmurousness

noun

Etymology From murmurous + -ness.

1

Quality of being murmurous.

  • For the third time I played hell with the bell. As I lay waiting I could hear a sort of murmurousness beyond the door. It seemed composed of whimperings, slitherings, and shufflings, punctuated occasionally by a raised voice in the distance.1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 14:

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