spissitudes

Noun

spissitude (countable and uncountable, plural spissitudes)

1. Density, thickness; the state or quality of being inspissated or thickened.
   • The cause is, for that it is over-moistened, and wanteth spissitude: and we have a merry saying, that they that go drunk to bed get daughters.1803, Francis Bacon, The works of Francis Bacon, page 495
2. Spiritual substance or density, viewed as the fourth dimension of an object.
   • Bodies in and of themselves lack spissitude. But since, in nature, all bodies are permeated by spirit of some kind, the ability of a complex body to maintain its size indicates a certain, constant spissitude.1989, Amos Funkenstein, Theology and the Scientific Imagination from the Middle Ages to the Seventeenth Century, →ISBN