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burningness en · NOUN

Etymology

From burning + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (rare, uncountable) The property of burning or seeming to burn.
    • Finally the sheer unfulfilled burningness of sexual desire seems heightened and beautiful in the regal past, but completely passive, beaten down and 'supine' in the low-life present. 2011, Jason Harding, T. S. Eliot in Context, page 299: