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inflammableness

inflammableness noun: the quality of being inflammable; inflammability.

Noun

inflammableness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being inflammable; inflammability.
    • For , they ascribe to salt , tastes , and the power of coagulation ; to sulphur , as well odours as inflammableness ; and some of them ascribe to mercury , colours ; as all of them do effumability1661, Robert Boyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Sceptical Chymist: or Chymico-physical Doubts & Paradoxes, […], London: […] J. Cadwell for J. Crooke, […], →OCLC

Origin of inflammableness

From inflammable + -ness.

Questions about inflammableness

What does inflammableness mean?
Inflammableness means the quality of being inflammable; inflammability.
What part of speech is inflammableness?
Inflammableness is a noun.

Words near inflammableness in the dictionary

  1. inflammabilities
  2. inflammability
  3. inflammable
  4. inflammable air
  5. inflammable cinnabar
  6. inflammableness
  7. inflammables
  8. inflammably
  9. inflammage
  10. inflammaged
  11. inflammageing

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