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mustinesses

mustinesses is the plural of mustiness.

Meaning of mustiness

Noun

mustiness (countable and uncountable, plural mustinesses)

  1. The characteristic of being musty.
    • But during those two years for some reason or other the house had fallen into premature and rapid decay. With a very few months an air of mustiness began to hang over the once palatial residence of the rich foreign financier.1933, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], chapter I, in The Way of the Scarlet Pimpernel, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, published 1934, →OCLC, page 1

Questions about mustinesses

What is mustinesses the plural of?
Mustinesses is the plural of mustiness.

Words near mustinesses in the dictionary

  1. mustimeter
  2. mustimeters
  3. Mustin
  4. mustine
  5. mustiness
  6. mustinesses
  7. musting
  8. Mustins
  9. mustiphini
  10. mustiphinis
  11. Mustique

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