Fustiness

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being fusty. uncountable, usually

    "[…] I was running away from drabness, fustiness, snobbery, the claustrophobia of close horizons, and from my inability, although I am quite an attractive rat, to make headway in the rat-race."

Example

More examples

"[…] I was running away from drabness, fustiness, snobbery, the claustrophobia of close horizons, and from my inability, although I am quite an attractive rat, to make headway in the rat-race."

Etymology

From fusty + -ness.

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