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Definition of Indigestibleness
1. Noun. The property of being difficult to digest.
Generic synonyms: Edibility, Edibleness
Antonyms: Digestibility
Derivative terms: Indigestible, Indigestible
Definition of Indigestibleness
1. Noun. The quality of being indigestible. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Indigestibleness
Literary usage of Indigestibleness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings ... Annual Forum by National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, Conference of Charities (U.S., Conference of Charities (U.S.), National Conference of Social Work (U.S. (1895)
"And certain parts of the country he objected to mainly on account of the
indigestibleness of the food commonly tendered to wayfarers ; namely, ..."
2. The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life by John Donne (1839)
"Our prisons are fallen, our bodies are dead to many former uses ; our palate dead
in tastelessness ; our stomach dead in an indigestibleness ; our feet dead ..."
3. Proceedings of the National Conference of Charities and Correction, at the by National Conference of Charities and Correction (U.S.). Session (1895)
"And certain parts of the country he objected to mainly on account of the
indigestibleness of the food commonly tendered to wayfarers; namely, "bacon so fat ..."
4. An English Prose Miscellany by John Masefield (1907)
"Our prisons are fallen, our bodies are dead to many former uses ; our palate dead
in a tastelessness; our stomach dead in an indigestibleness; our feet dead ..."
5. Greek Thinkers: A History of Ancient Philosophy by Theodor Gomperz (1905)
"... and the blood-vessels, his explanations of the indigestibleness of cheese and
of the intoxication produced by wine, whatever forms they may have taken, ..."
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