sootinessn.
The condition or property of being sooty; dirtiness or blackness from, or as from, soot.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > dirtiness or soiling with specific kinds of dirt > [noun] > sootiness
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > products of burning > [noun] > soot > quality
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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Fuligine, soot, sootinesse; smoakinesse.
a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1953) VI. 57 There growes a blacknesse, a sootinesse upon the soule, by custome in sin.
1727 in N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II
1866 Spectator 1 Dec. 1339 Every new addition..is successively hailed.., and then passes into deserved contempt and sootiness.
1892 Photogr. Ann. II. 711 That dense sootiness which so frequently spoils collotype work.
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