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Stuffiness

noun
1.
State of obstruction or stoppage or air in the nose or throat.
2.
The quality of being close and poorly ventilated.  Synonym: closeness.
3.
Dull and pompous gravity.  Synonym: stodginess.





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"Stuffiness" Quotes from Famous Books



... please me as yours did, I can tell you in one word - NONE. I am no great kirkgoer, for many reasons - and the sermon's one of them, and the first prayer another, but the chief and effectual reason is the stuffiness. I am no great kirkgoer, says I, but when I read yon letter of yours, I thought I would like to sit under ye. And then I saw ye were to send me a bit buik, and says I, I'll wait for the bit buik, and then I'll mebbe can read the man's name, and anyway I'll can kill twa ...
— Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson - Volume 2 • Robert Louis Stevenson


Words linked to "Stuffiness" :   stuffy, congestion, graveness, soberness, somberness, sombreness, gravity, sobriety, quality


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