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stuffiness|ˈstʌfɪnɪs|
[-ness.]
The quality of being stuffy.
†1. Thickness or closeness of texture. Obs.
1611Cotgr., Corps..(in cloth, or stuffe) substance, tacke, stuffinesse.
2. The condition of being close or ill-ventilated.
1859W. H. Gregory Egypt II. 164 The smallness of the bedrooms, which we should consider conducive to much stuffiness. 1908R. Bagot A. Cuthbert vii. 65 Passengers who, like himself, preferred the fresh air on deck to the stuffiness of the saloon.
3. The state or sensation of stoppage and obstruction in the throat or nose.
1862Geo. Eliot in Cross Life II. xii. 279 As soon as one [cold] has departed with the usual final stage of stuffiness. 1884M. Mackenzie Dis. Throat & Nose II. 313 The patient almost always experiences a feeling of ‘stuffiness’ in the nose. 1898Allbutt's Syst. Med. V. 289 A more or less general disagreeable stuffiness of the respiratory tract.
4. A formal or strait-laced attitude.
1926Galsworthy Silver Spoon iii. vi. 262 The book breaks through the British ‘stuffiness’ which condemns any frank work of art. 1933Times Lit. Suppl. 9 Nov. 776/4 We see Angrove's clerical stuffiness gradually dispelled by the Greek sun and sea. 1975J. R. L. Anderson Death in North Sea vi. 112 Mr. Wilson more than made up for his initial stuffiness... I took him into a small bar. |