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staginess|ˈsteɪdʒɪnɪs|
Also stageyness.
[f. stagy a. + -ness.]
1. Stagy character or style; the quality of being stagy; theatrical mannerism.
1864Reader 7 May 598 There is not a trace of staginess to be detected. 1878Jevons Methods Soc. Reform 10 The crudeness and staginess of the play need to be subdued. 1882A. W. Ward Dickens vii. 206 In his earlier writings..there is much stageyness.
2. Of a seal or its skin (see stagy a. 2).
1887H. W. Elliott in G. B. Goode Fish. Industr. U.S. v. II. 488 These [sea-otter] skins..never show at any season those signs of shedding and staginess so marked in the seal. 1898D. S. Jordan Fur Seals i. 66 The trouble here arises from a misunderstanding of what is meant by ‘staginess’. It does not designate any marked difference in quantity of the fur. |