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burningness

burningness noun: the property of burning or seeming to burn.

Noun

burningness (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The property of burning or seeming to burn.
    • Finally the sheer unfulfilled burningness of sexual desire seems heightened and beautiful in the regal past, but completely passive, beaten down and 'supine' in the low-life present.2011, Jason Harding, T. S. Eliot in Context, page 299

Origin of burningness

From burning + -ness.

Questions about burningness

What does burningness mean?
Burningness means the property of burning or seeming to burn.
What part of speech is burningness?
Burningness is a noun.

Words near burningness in the dictionary

  1. burning-glasses
  2. burningbush
  3. Burningham
  4. Burninghams
  5. burningly
  6. burningness
  7. burnings
  8. burnish
  9. burnished
  10. burnisher
  11. burnishers

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