Fustiness
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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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