inflammableness

English

Etymology

inflammable +‎ -ness

Noun

inflammableness (uncountable)

1. The quality of being inflammable; inflammability.
   • 1661, Robert Boyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Sceptical Chymist: or Chymico-physical Doubts & Paradoxes, […], London: […] J. Cadwell for J. Crooke, […], →OCLC:

     For , they ascribe to salt , tastes , and the power of coagulation ; to sulphur , as well odours as inflammableness ; and some of them ascribe to mercury , colours ; as all of them do effumability

References

• “inflammableness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.