stolidness

English

Etymology

stolid +‎ -ness

Noun

stolidness (uncountable)

The quality of being stolid.
- 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Virago Press (2018), page 88:
  She got so she received all things with the stolidness of the earth which soaks up urine and perfume with the same indifference.

References

“stolidness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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