Definition of "soulfulness" [soulfulness]

• The state of being soulful. (noun)

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• "First shade: soulfulness is sorrowful feeling transformed into something beautiful, creative and self-renewing … Another shade … to follow and fall in line with a feeling … Hurston … makes "culture" that slow and particular and artificial accretion of habit and circumstance – seem as natural and organic and beautiful as the sunrise …"
• "If we try, we can cultivate the neshamah yeteirah, that extra measure of soulfulness, which is at the heart of the Shabbat experience."
• "However, as someone who does not believe in the "soulfulness" of stuff, I was honestly fascinated by this interview with two bicycle collectors, Kadir Guirey and Rohan Dubash:"