comfortableness

American  

[kuhm-fer-tuh-buhl-nis, kuhmf-ter-buhl-nis] / ˈkʌm fər tə bəl nɪs, ˈkʌmf tər bəl nɪs /

Also comfortability

noun

1. the quality of being comfortable or of affording ease or comfort, whether physical or emotional.

   These pants are made of smooth pure cotton for optimum comfortableness and movability.

   In the film, the conversation about sexuality took place in such a non-shaming way—I loved the comfortableness between the girl and her mother.

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Etymology

Origin of comfortableness

comfortable ( def. ) + -ness ( def. )

Example Sentences

I think there’s a range of comfortableness in a voice.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2025

"But that comfortableness gets tested on Friday morning."

From BBC • Sep. 11, 2024

“I was falling in love. I was having a more consistent feeling of comfortableness in my body in a way that I had never had,” Schoenbrun says.

From Seattle Times • May 1, 2024

The governor said provisions in the criminal code on this issue had been altered from an earlier, stricter version so "would provide a better guarantee of everyone's privacy and comfortableness."

From Reuters • Dec. 12, 2022

You must not think, because I speak so much of the comfortableness of the life of this typical French provincial family, that there was the least suspicion of laziness about them.

From Home Fires in France by Canfield, Dorothy