corrosiveness
English
Etymology
Noun
corrosiveness (uncountable)
- The quality or property of corroding or being corrosive, of eating away or disintegrating; acrimony.
- (figuratively) Such property in some immaterial agent.
- Some property characteristic of a corrosive substance, as its taste.
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References
- Noah Webster (1828) “corrosiveness”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language: […], volume I (A–I), New York, N.Y.: […] S. Converse; printed by Hezekiah Howe […], →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “corrosiveness”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.