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Etymology

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rushing +‎ -ness

Noun

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rushingness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being rushing.
    • 1833, The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal (part 2, page 436)
      [] there you saw the squirrel, half tamed, beneath the nearest tree; and aloft, with its peculiar rushingness of wing, you heard the flight of the scarce-seen ring-dove.