The Collaborative International Dictionary
Searchingness
Searching \Search"ing\, a.
Exploring thoroughly; scrutinizing; penetrating; trying; as,
a searching discourse; a searching eye. ``Piercing,
searching, biting, cold.''
--Dickens.
[1913 Webster] -- Search"ing*ly, adv. -- Search"ing*ness,
n.
Wiktionary
searchingness
n. The state or quality of being searching.