rare. [f. as prec. + -NESS.] The quality or character of being soothing; a soothing property or feature.
1818. Coleridge, Lett. (1895), II. 692. She is goodnatured, lively, innocent, but without a soothingness, or something I do not know what that is tender.
1876. Lowell, Among my Bks., Ser. II. 179. In all this there is soothingness indeed, but no slumberous monotony.
