Definition of "soddenness" [soddenness]

• The property of being sodden. (noun)

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• "Through the soddenness of my degradation the lure of her struck like a knife piercing my heart and strangely revived the memories of the days when I was a man like other men -- not yet a sullen, cringing slave of dreams."
• "I was soaked to soddenness, and no longer cared whether my mantle covered my fuligin torturer's cloak."
• "It also brought about a verbal soddenness by which measure the beat generation was positively scholastic, and it brought the abuse of some very destructive drugs."