Crossword clues for lovingness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lovingness \Lov"ing*ness\, n. Affection; kind regard.
The only two bands of good will, loveliness and
lovingness.
--Sir. P.
Sidney.
Wiktionary
n. The quality of being loving.
WordNet
n. a loving feeling [syn: caring]
a quality proceeding from feelings of affection or love [syn: affectionateness, fondness, warmth]
Usage examples of "lovingness".
Thus he preserved his amusement at her quaint warmths, and quainter calmness, his aesthetic pleasure in watching her, whose strange, half-hypnotized, half-hypnotic gaze, had a sort of dreamy and pathetic lovingness, as if she were brimful of affections that had no outlet.
Preternaturally adult, privy to all their privities, he meditated daily on the raw torrid stuff of married life: the financial anxieties, the moments of sweet undifferentiated lovingness, the moments of guiltily suppressed hatred for the wearisome eternal spouse, the copulatory joys and anguishes, the comings together and the failings apart, the mysteries of failed orgasms and wilted erections, the intense and terrifyingly singleminded concentration on the growth and proper development of The Child.