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tippiness

tippiness noun: the quality of being tippy, tendency to tip or tilt over.

Noun

tippiness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being tippy, tendency to tip or tilt over.
    • It was low tide, so there was a long, sickening ladder with slimy rungs to climb down to get to the canoe. The man’s big laugh and the tippiness of the canoe were even more frightening than the ladder.1941, Emily Carr, chapter 1, in Klee Wyck
    • […] the government’s recently released rollover test results for the 2004 model year show that SUVs vary widely in their tippiness, giving buyers more incentive to shop around.2004 August 30, Daren Fonda, “The Shrinking SUV”, in Time

Origin of tippiness

From tippy + -ness.

Questions about tippiness

What does tippiness mean?
Tippiness means the quality of being tippy, tendency to tip or tilt over.
What part of speech is tippiness?
Tippiness is a noun.

Words near tippiness in the dictionary

  1. Tippie
  2. tippier
  3. tippies
  4. tippiest
  5. Tippin
  6. tippiness
  7. tipping
  8. tipping back
  9. tipping down
  10. tipping element
  11. tipping elements

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