English edit

Etymology edit

yeasty +‎ -ness

Noun edit

yeastiness (uncountable)

  1. The state or condition of being yeasty.
    • 2009 July 19, Frank Bruni, “Foie Gras Palates, Hot Dog Pocketbooks”, in New York Times[1]:
      You, no doubt, will come to your own conclusion, based on yeastiness and maybe “crumb factor” and possibly “hole-to-dough ratio.”
    • 2016, Sebastian Groes, quoting Angela Carter, British Fictions of the Sixties, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 4:
      I'd like to be able to dismiss it all as superficial and irrelevant to what was really going on, people arguing about Hegel and so on, but I'm forced to admit there was a yeastiness in the air that was due to a great deal of unrestrained and irreverent frivolity []