tippiness

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noun

The quality of being tippy, tendency to tip or tilt over.

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Meanings

nountippiness (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe quality of being tippy, tendency to tip or tilt over.

    […] a bag of personal belongings carried on the back of a wheelchair will increase its ‘tippiness’.

    2008, Lisa Harvey, chapter 4, in Management of Spinal Cord Injuries: A Guide for Physiotherapists, Butterworth-Heinemann, page 85
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    It was low tide, so there was a long, sickening ladder with slimy rungs to climb down to get to the canoe. The man’s big laugh and the tippiness of the canoe were even more frightening than the ladder.

    1941, Emily Carr, chapter 1, in Klee Wyck

    […] the government’s recently released rollover test results for the 2004 model year show that SUVs vary widely in their tippiness, giving buyers more incentive to shop around.

    2004 August 30, Daren Fonda, “The Shrinking SUV”, in Time

Origin

From tippy + -ness.

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APA

tippiness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tippiness

MLA

“tippiness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tippiness. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “tippiness,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tippiness.

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