corrosivenessn.
/kəˈrəʊsɪvnɪs/ The quality of being corrosive.
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corrosiveness1611
edacity1657
causticity1772
corrosivity1796
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Corrosivité,..corrosiveness.
a1631 J. Donne To Sir E. Herbert in Poems Corrosivenesse, or intense cold or heat.
1674 C. Goodall Coll. Physic. Vindicated (1676) 53 The corrosiveness of some juices.
1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Cedar Cedar..used in Building..would reform the Malignity and Corrosiveness in the Air.
1876 W. C. Cartwright Jesuits 225 The sublimated corrosiveness of which has been steadily gnawing away..every element of organic independence.
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