释义 |
ˈsootiness [f. sooty a. + -ness.] The condition or property of being sooty; dirtiness or blackness from, or as from, soot.
1611Cotgr., Fuligine, soot, sootinesse; smoakinesse. c1628Donne Serm. lv. (1640) 557 There growes a blacknesse, a sootinesse upon the soule, by custome in sin. 1727in Bailey (vol. II). 1866Spectator 1 Dec. 1339 Every new addition..is successively hailed.., and then passes into deserved contempt and sootiness. 1892Photogr. Ann. II. 711 That dense sootiness which so frequently spoils collotype work. |