The quality or state of being dowie; sadness, dolefuliness, or a sense of melancholy doom.
From Scottish 'dowie' plus the noun-forming suffix '-ness,' creating an abstract noun for the quality of being mournful.
The noun 'dowiness' captures that Scottish emotional register—it's not just sadness but a kind of fatalistic, atmospheric melancholy that permeates works by writers like Robert Burns.
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