Meanings
- obsoleterareuncountableSynonym of yieldingness (“the quality or state of being yielding, submissive, or flexible”).
Large and roomy, and with a soft "yieldiness" [?] suggests repose the moment you sit down in it.
1907, Unattributed, “The Comfort”, in Newark Advocate2 more examples
In many years of breeding work, Academician Tsitsin's pupils have failed to combine within one organism chromosomes bearing particles (genes) of hereditary substance with the "super winter-hardiness" of couch grass with the high yieldiness of wheat.
1949, Arthur Lutz, The situation in biological science, page 205Both the seeds [...] and root of our Garden Fennel are much used in broths for those that are grown fat, to abate their yieldiness and cause them to grow more gaunt [...]
1968, Ben Charles Harris, Kitchen Medicines, page 73Synonyms: yieldingness
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of yieldingness (“the quality or state of being yielding, submissive, or flexible”).
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