[f. CHEERLESS + -NESS.] Cheerless quality or condition; dreariness.
1823. Trewman’s Exeter Flying-Post, 6 Feb., 1/2. I had consoled myself on the late copious fall of snow, and the concometant [sic] rigors of an almost Russian climate, that amidst the cheerlessness of this natural scene, one benefit of another kind would at least be likely to result.
1837. Ht. Martineau, Soc. Amer., III. 196. The one thing which the born blind want most is to have their cheerlessness removed.
1886. Spectator, 6 March, 307. The dark cold cheerlessness of the weather.
