flushiness

English

Etymology

From flushy +‎ -ness.

Noun

flushiness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being flushy.
    Synonyms: blushiness, blushingness, flushedness
    • 1859, an Octogenarian [pseudonym; Hans Busk], “Lyric cxlvii.”, in Hebrew Lyrics, London: Saunders, Otley, and Co., […]; Wertheim, Macintosh, and Hunt, […], →OCLC, page 470:
      On soft cushion maternal He pillows the head / Of the babe, to sleep hush’d, in its flushiness glowing, / Tints the snows of its cheek with blush-rose diap’rèd: […]
    • 1878, S[amuel] Lilienthal, “Typhus and Typhoid Fevers”, in Homœopathic Therapeutics, New York, N.Y.; Philadelphia, Pa.: Boericke & Tafel, →OCLC, page 646:
      Terebinthina. Towards end of second week bright-red tongue, smooth and glossy, as if deprived of its papillæ; vertigo, fulness, and flushiness of face; […]
    • 1941 February 17, Edgar Cayce, “Common Cold”, in Gladys Davis Turner, Mae Gimbert St. Clair, compilers, Individual Reference File of Extracts from the Edgar Cayce Readings, Virginia Beach, Va.: Association for Research and Enlightenment, published 1976, →ISBN, page 61:
      The cold is both contagious and infectious. It is a germ that attacks the mucous membranes of nasal passages or throat. Often it is preceded by the feeling of flushiness or cold sensations, and by spasmodic reactions in the mucous membranes of the nasal passages.
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