tippiness

English

Etymology

tippy +‎ -ness

Noun

tippiness (uncountable)

1. The quality of being tippy, tendency to tip or tilt over.
   • 1941, Emily Carr, chapter 1, in Klee Wyck‎^[1]:

     It was low tide, so there was a long, sickening ladder with slimy rungs to climb down to get to the canoe. The man’s big laugh and the tippiness of the canoe were even more frightening than the ladder.

   • 2004 August 30, Daren Fonda, “The Shrinking SUV”, in Time:

     […] the government’s recently released rollover test results for the 2004 model year show that SUVs vary widely in their tippiness, giving buyers more incentive to shop around.

   • 2008, Lisa Harvey, chapter 4, in Management of Spinal Cord Injuries: A Guide for Physiotherapists, Butterworth-Heinemann, page 85:

     […] a bag of personal belongings carried on the back of a wheelchair will increase its ‘tippiness’.

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