[f. as prec. + -NESS.] The quality of being amorous or inclined to love; fondness of the opposite sex; lovingness.
1580. Sidney, Arcadia (1622), 160. Iealousie of his amourousnesse.
a. 1631. Donne, Select. (1840), 30. What doth thy holy amorousness, thy holy covetousness … most carry thy desire upon?
1665. Boyle, Occas. Refl., V. ix. (1675), 332. Lindamor has Wit and Amorousness enough … to defend fair Ladies.
1755. in Johnson; and in mod. Dicts.
