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flushiness

flushiness noun: the quality of being flushy.

Noun

flushiness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being flushy.
    • On soft cushion maternal He pillows the head / Of the babe, to sleep hush’d, in its flushiness glowing, / Tints the snows of its cheek with blush-rose diap’rèd: […]1859, an Octogenarian [pseudonym; Hans Busk], “Lyric cxlvii.”, in Hebrew Lyrics, London: Saunders, Otley, and Co., […]; Wertheim, Macintosh, and Hunt, […], →OCLC, page 470
    • Terebinthina. Towards end of second week bright-red tongue, smooth and glossy, as if deprived of its papillæ; vertigo, fulness, and flushiness of face; […]1878, S[amuel] Lilienthal, “Typhus and Typhoid Fevers”, in Homœopathic Therapeutics, New York, N.Y.; Philadelphia, Pa.: Boericke & Tafel, →OCLC, page 646

Synonyms of flushiness

Origin of flushiness

From flushy + -ness.

Questions about flushiness

What does flushiness mean?
Flushiness means the quality of being flushy.
What part of speech is flushiness?
Flushiness is a noun.

Words near flushiness in the dictionary

  1. flushes out
  2. flushest
  3. flusheth
  4. flushier
  5. flushiest
  6. flushiness
  7. flushing
  8. flushing out
  9. flushing time
  10. flushing times
  11. flushing toilet

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