Burningness

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The property of burning or seeming to burn. rare, uncountable

    "Finally the sheer unfulfilled burningness of sexual desire seems heightened and beautiful in the regal past, but completely passive, beaten down and 'supine' in the low-life present."

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"Finally the sheer unfulfilled burningness of sexual desire seems heightened and beautiful in the regal past, but completely passive, beaten down and 'supine' in the low-life present."

Etymology

From burning + -ness.

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