rubberinessn.
/ˈrʌb(ə)rɪnᵻs/, U.S. /ˈrəbərinᵻs/ The state or condition of being rubbery.
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rubberiness1905
1905 13th Ann. Meeting Wisconsin Cheese Makers' Assoc. 181 Its texture at no stage of ripening possesses that degree of curdiness, rubberiness, even harshness, which characterizes the true cheddar in its early stages of ripening.
1952 E. Hemingway Old Man & Sea 125 The old man swung the club down on him..and hit only the heavy solid rubberiness.
1972 P. W. Allen Nat. Rubber & Synthetics i. 1 All [rubbers] are high polymers, but of a special type possessing distinctive chemical structural characteristics which enable them to be transformed by one means or another into materials having the property of ‘rubberiness’.
2005 Independent 15 Nov. (Motoring section) 2/6 At this more leisurely pace, I sense a numbing rubberiness in the first part of the steering's movement.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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