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stuffiness

nounC1Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #15,206 of 15,258Too rare in one of the two pools to compare — fewer than 20 uses in speech or in writing

Stuffiness is airlessness in a room, or stiff formality in a person. The stuffiness of the hall.

The physical sense is usually carbon dioxide rather than heat, which is why opening a window works. The formal sense is a complaint about manner rather than about rules.

Definitions of stuffiness

  1. 1nounstuffinessAirlessness in a room, or stiff formality in a person.C1

    “The stuffiness of the room sent half the audience to sleep.”

stuffiness is a quality.

Where it comes from

From stuffy + -ness.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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stuffiness in the wild

  • At doses of 0.05 to 0.2 mg per day, reserpine is well tolerated; the most common adverse effect being nasal stuffiness.

    Reserpine

  • The film parodies the perceived stuffiness of the 1950s BBC and the effect of television advertising in the era.

    Make Mine a Million

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

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