oppressiveness

I love you to oppressiveness—I, who have never before felt more than a pleasant passing fancy for any woman I have ever seen.

The kind of emotion which this examination, joined to the oppressiveness of the air, occasioned, was choking the baron.

There was a curious oppressiveness in the air, too, and more than one found difficulty in breathing.

Poor, highly strung Sue Bridehead, with her neurotic temperament, could not throw off the oppressiveness of the old house.

The Marine band struck the first notes of the National Hymn amid a silence whose oppressiveness could be felt.