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Etymology

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burning +‎ -ness

Noun

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burningness (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The property of burning or seeming to burn.
    • 2011, Jason Harding, T. S. Eliot in Context, page 299:
      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.