2. Noun. Something kinky ¹
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Definition of Kinkiness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kinkiness
Literary usage of Kinkiness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"Certainly whites and negroes do not overlap, to any extent, in color of skin,
nor negroes and Chinamen in kinkiness of hair, nor Indians and Pygmies in ..."
2. Educational Psychology by Edward Lee Thorndike (1921)
"The former may be separated fairly clearly from straightness,* but within its
own range it varies from waviness to extreme kinkiness. ..."
3. The Passing of the Great Race; Or, The Racial Basis of European History by Madison Grant, Henry Fairfield Osborn (1921)
"... recent investigations have shown that other factors also contribute to
straightness or kinkiness, such as coarseness of texture, as opposed to fineness. ..."
4. Applied Eugenics by Paul Bowman Popenoe, Roswell Hill Johnson (1918)
"... are of no real significance,—a chocolate hue of skin, a certain kinkiness of
hair, and so on,—then logically the white race should remove the handicaps ..."
5. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1881)
"The kinkiness of the hair is not confined to the negroes, for the brown natives
of Tasmania have hair as wooly, and many African tribes are without the ..."
6. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1881)
"The kinkiness of the hair is not confined to the negroes, for the brown natives
of Tasmania have hair as wooly, and many African tribes are without the ..."
7. Principles of Political Economy by Arthur Latham Perry (1890)
"This passage is interesting, as showing that the first comparison of cotton with
wool exhibited their resemblance in whiteness and in kinkiness, ..."
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