heartfulnessn.
/ˈhɑːtf(ᵿ)lnəs/, U.S. /ˈhɑrtfəlnəs/ The fact or quality of being heartful; sincerity or warmth of feeling or expression.
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the mind > emotion > sincere emotion > [noun]
heartinessc1475
cordiality1611
cordialness1611
heartfulness1611
the mind > emotion > love > affection > [noun] > warmth or sincerity of affection
warmness1526
heartfulness1611
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Cordialité, cordiallnesse, heartinesse, heartfulnesse.
1730 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum Heartiness, heartfulness, soundness of Constitution, Sincerity, Cordialness.
1819 Ann. Fine Arts 3 434 Barry's letters evince, a more glowing candour, and a more complete heartfulness, than those of his political and worldly-minded friend.
1845 G. Murray Islaford 157 Whose heartfulness has warmth enough To give the thing a soul.
1888 C. F. Richardson Amer. Lit. 1607–1885 (1889) I. iii. 93 What he [sc. Longfellow] misses in intellectual greatness he possesses in heartfulness.
1904 Good Housek. Apr. 370/1 Of all fictionists Dickens has the most spontaneous, untamable high spirits: the surface phase of his essential heartfulness.
1987 Reggae & Afr. Beat No. 4. 43/2 He is heard to greatest advantage on the dub side where his improvisatory intelligence and heartfulness is bracing.
2011 Queensland Times (Austral.) (Nexis) 19 Aug. 10 We do not look for the refinements of singing, but the honesty and heartfulness of the singers.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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