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Definition of Stuffiness

1. Noun. State of obstruction or stoppage or air in the nose or throat.

2. Noun. The quality of being close and poorly ventilated.

3. Noun. Dull and pompous gravity.

Definition of Stuffiness

1. n. The quality of being stuffy.

Definition of Stuffiness

1. Noun. The state or quality of being angry and obstinate. ¹

2. Noun. The state or quality of being poorly-ventilated and close. ¹

3. Noun. (countable rare) The result or product of being stuffy. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Stuffiness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stuffiness

stuffed mushroom stuffed peppers stuffed shirt stuffed shirts stuffed to the gills stuffed tomato stuffer stuffer fragment stuffers stuffie

stuffier stuffies stuffiest stuffily stuffiness (current term) stuffinesses stuffing stuffing box stuffing nut stuffings

stuffless stuffs stuffy stuggier stuggiest stuggy stuiver stuivers stuke

Literary usage of Stuffiness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Diseases of the Nose, Throat and Ear by William Lincoln Ballenger (1908)
"The obstruction in the upper part of the nose gives rise to a sense of stuffiness and of pressure across the bridge of the nose. These symptoms are rather ..."

2. The Smokeless City by Ernest Darwin Simon, Marion Fitzgerald (1922)
"As soon as the temperature gets too high, especially if the ventilation is not good, the feeling of stuffiness appears. stuffiness can be avoided by ..."

3. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"See stuff, a. stuffiness (stuf'i-nes), n. 1. ... As soon as one [cold] has departed with the usual final stage of stuffiness, another presents Itself. ..."

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