Meanings
nounburningness (uncountable)
- rareuncountableThe property of burning or seeming to burn.
Finally the sheer unfulfilled burningness of sexual desire seems heightened and beautiful in the regal past, but completely passive, beaten down and 'supine' in the low-life present.
2011, Jason Harding, T. S. Eliot in Context, page 299
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burningness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/burningness
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“burningness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/burningness. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “burningness,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/burningness.
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