The capacity of a substance to cut, pierce, or corrode; acidity, caustic quality. Obsolete.

Of things. of medicine, disease. archaic. See benign, adj.

In a material sense: Smoothness. Obsolete.

Pharmacology. The condition (of drugs) of being incompatible (sense 5); an instance of this.

= alkalescence, n.

The quality or fact of being specific in operation or effect.

Specific scientific and technical uses. Chemistry. The capacity of substances to tolerate each other without chemical reaction or undesirable…

The condition of containing orgone; the amount of orgone contained.

The property of being addictive; the degree to which something is addictive.