Term: plaintiveness: expressing sorrowfulness
Candidate hypernym: mournfulness: a state of gloomy sorrow → 1
Candidate hypernym: fuller's earth: an absorbent soil resembling clay; used in fulling (shrinking and thickening) woolen cloth and as an adsorbent → 0
Candidate hypernym: pleochroism: the phenomenon of different colors appearing when certain crystals are viewed from different directions → 0
Candidate hypernym: ceratostomella: genus of fungi forming continuous hyaline spores → 0
Candidate hypernym: scomberesox: a genus of Scomberesocidae → 0
Candidate hypernym: tetragram: a word that is written with four letters in an alphabetic writing system → 0
Candidate hypernym: lease: the period of time during which a contract conveying property to a person is in effect → 0
Candidate hypernym: haslet: heart and liver and other edible viscera especially of hogs; usually chopped and formed into a loaf and braised → 0
Candidate hypernym: downshift: a change from a financially rewarding but stressful career to a less well paid but more fulfilling one → 0
Candidate hypernym: beaugregory: a blue and yellow damselfish of Bermuda and Florida and the West Indies → 0
Candidate hypernym: alleviator: a therapist who makes suffering more endurable → 0