Mucidness
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The state or condition of being mucid. also, figuratively, rare, uncountable
"From whence it appears, that ſometimes compreſs’d Air is more diſpos’d to alter Colours, than uncompreſs’d; and it may not be amiſs to obſerve, that the Roſes after this manner ſhut up, did not acquire the leaſt Mucidneſs, but only a yellow Colour: But when the Experiment was try’d with Tulips and Lark-Spurs, the Succeſs was different."
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More examples"From whence it appears, that ſometimes compreſs’d Air is more diſpos’d to alter Colours, than uncompreſs’d; and it may not be amiſs to obſerve, that the Roſes after this manner ſhut up, did not acquire the leaſt Mucidneſs, but only a yellow Colour: But when the Experiment was try’d with Tulips and Lark-Spurs, the Succeſs was different."
Etymology
From mucid + -ness.
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