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Pitifulness vs Pitiableness - What's the difference?

pitifulness | pitiableness |

As nouns the difference between pitifulness and pitiableness

is that pitifulness is the state or quality of being pitiful while pitiableness is the quality of being pitiable.

pitifulness

English

Noun

(-)
  • The state or quality of being pitiful.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1920, author=Katharine Newlin Burt, title=Hidden Creek, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=He had definitely shed the pitifulness of his childhood. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1854, author=Theodor Mommsen, title=The History of Rome, Book V, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The Jugurtha of the same author is in an exactly similar way designed partly to expose the pitifulness of the oligarchic government, partly to glorify the Coryphaeus of the democracy, Gaius Marius. }}

    pitiableness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The quality of being pitiable.
    • (Webster 1913)