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inflammability|ɪnflæməˈbɪlɪtɪ|
[f. next: see -ity. So F. inflammabilité (Buffon).]
a. The quality of being inflammable; † an inflammable. Cf. flammability
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. xxi. 161 If the ambient air be impregnate with subtile inflamabilities, and such as are of quick accension. 1674Boyle Grounds Corpusc. Philos. 25 Sulphur..owes its inflammability to the convention of yet more simple and primary corpuscles. 1831Brewster Optics iii. 26 The high absolute refractive power of oil of cassia..indicates the great inflammability of its ingredients. 1966Wallace & Wilkinson Res. Burns 634 Standards of non-inflammability to which textile fabrics must conform. 1968E. Miller Textiles vi. 133 The necessity for some form of treatment which would reduce inflammability risk in fabrics has been on record since the seventeenth century at least.
b. fig. Excitableness of temperament.
1787Jefferson Let. to Madison 30 Jan. in Corr. (1829) II. 90 He has one foible, an excessive inflammability of temper. 1858–62Carlyle Fredk. Gt. ix. x. (1872) III. 166 This royal Young Gentleman, with his vanities, ambitions, inexperiences, plentiful inflammabilities. 1863M. Howitt F. Bremer's Greece I. viii. 264, I had thus an opportunity of witnessing Greek inflammability during parliamentary discussion. |
