gustinessn.
/ˈɡʌstɪnɪs/ The condition or quality of being gusty.
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the mind > emotion > excitement > excitability of temperament > [noun]
suscitability1612
fieriness1625
heat1689
inflammability1787
excitability1797
mobility1824
inflammableness1830
excitableness1875
gustiness1901
1901 Westm. Gaz. 20 June 10/1 The everlasting gustiness for which the Maoriland capital is famed.
1920 Times Lit. Suppl. 9 Sept. 586/1 From the point of view of construction his stories are..irregular, but for sheer gustiness they are hard to equal.
1946 G. Millar Horned Pigeon ix. 128 Binns..thought all Italians were ‘dirty people’, and he could hate Garibaldi with fresh gustiness.
1957 G. E. Hutchinson Treat. Limnol. I. v. 275 The roughness of the water surface and gustiness of the wind.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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