pastinessn.

1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 267 Ensnarled with the binding pastinesse and tenacious gluysh substance of the web.

1667 W. Petty in T. Sprat Hist. Royal-Soc. 294 The Mather sticks better by reason of the starchy pastiness of the Bran-flower joyned with it.

1869 G. Fownes Man. Elem. Chem. (ed. 10) 404 When a proper degree of stiffness or pastiness is observed in the residual metal, it is withdrawn, and hammered or rolled into bars.

1872 Echo 4 Oct. 6 Their diamonds were conspicuous by their pastiness.

1900 Science 8 June 884/2 A favorable variety of potato can be reproduced..with all its peculiarities of..pastiness or mealiness.

1928 Social Forces 7 128/2 The leaven that these more privileged groups should bring to an uncritical audience is submerged in the general pastiness of the dough.

1989 V. Glendinning Grown-ups viii. 95 Martha's face had the pastiness of someone who had got up too early.

1925 R. Saudek Psychol. Handwriting iii. 43 The pastiness is explained either by the pen being far from the nib, or indeed, by special aesthetic reasons.

1981 P. Marne Crime & Sex in Handwriting i. 49 The writing..has a pastiness often seen in the script of a sexually excitable individual.

1991 M. Gullan-Whur Discover Graphol. v. 167 Physical energy mainly directed towards acquiring..but a sensuous nature (slight pastiness in all samples).