[f. prec. + -NESS.] The state or condition of being comfortable (in various senses; see the adj.).
1581. Sidney, Apol. Poetrie (Arb.), 49. Wee know a playing wit can prayse … the comfortablenes of being in debt.
1679. J. Goodman, Penit. Pard., III. vi. (1713), 370. The comfortableness of his Gospel.
1783. W. F. Martyn, Geog. Mag., II. 105. The comfortableness of their subsistence.
1816. J. Scott, Vis. Paris (ed. 5), 109. Which conduce most immediately to the comfortableness of their own feelings.
