[f. as prec. + -NESS.] Tragical quality.
1667. Decay Chr. Piety, xiv. ¶ 2. As well in the tragicalness of the event, as the insolence of the undertaking.
1687. Boyle, Martyrd. Theodora, vi. (1703), 88. A spectacle, whose tragicalness his revenge would make acceptable to him.
1905. A. C. Benson, Upton Lett. (1906), 203. I re-read The Light that failed for its abundant vitality and tragicalness.
