ashiness

English

Etymology

ashy +‎ -ness

Noun

ashiness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being ashy.
    • 1901, Onoto Watanna, chapter 13, in A Japanese Nightingale‎, New York: Harper, page 148:
      Jack Bigelow’s usually sunny face was bleached to the ashiness of fear and despair.
    • 2004, Marilynne Robinson, Gilead‎, Toronto: HarperCollins, page 49:
      […] 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.

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