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mucidness

mucidness noun: the state or condition of being mucid.

Noun

mucidness (uncountable)

  1. (also, figuratively, rare) The state or condition of being mucid.
    • From whence it appears, that ſometimes compreſs’d Air is more diſpos’d to alter Colours, than uncompreſs’d; and it may not be amiſs to obſerve, that the Roſes after this manner ſhut up, did not acquire the leaſt Mucidneſs, but only a yellow Colour: But when the Experiment was try’d with Tulips and...1700, Richard Boulton, book III, chapter III, in The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle, Eſq.: Epitomiz’d, volume II, London: Printed for J. Phillips […], and J. Taylor […], page 84
    • The average reader judges a paper by the amount of news it contains; its reliability as a chronicler of events; its enterprise in the direction of printing facts; its independence, coupled with the ability of its manager to extract solid news from slops, straight intelligence from fribbling...1884 August 14, “Newspapers and Goobers”, in Ellsworth Reporter, volume 13, number 39, Ellsworth, Kansas: Gebhardt & Huycke, page 2
    Synonyms:
    mucidity

Examples of mucidness in a sentence

  • Let us suppose that in a given space there exists a spore of mucidness.1889, Joseph Depierre, Elementary treatise on the finishing of white, dyed, and printed cotton goods, page 408
  • We should have taken shots at its mucidness, its obnoxious strip acts, its coarse and unfunny humors—harpooned performers whose didoes nauseated us.1937 May 4, Mabelle Jennings, “An Editorial”, in Washington Herald, volume 15, number 162, Washington, D.C., page 9:

Synonyms of mucidness

Origin of mucidness

From mucid + -ness.

Questions about mucidness

What does mucidness mean?
Mucidness means the state or condition of being mucid.
How do you use mucidness in a sentence?
Let us suppose that in a given space there exists a spore of mucidness.
What part of speech is mucidness?
Mucidness is a noun.

Words near mucidness in the dictionary

  1. mucic
  2. mucic acid
  3. mucicarmine
  4. mucid
  5. mucidity
  6. mucidness
  7. mucidous
  8. muciferous
  9. mucific
  10. mucification
  11. mucifications

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