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GASEOUSNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does gaseousness mean?
• GASEOUSNESS (noun)
The noun GASEOUSNESS has 1 sense:
1. having the consistency of a gas
Familiarity information: GASEOUSNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having the consistency of a gas
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("gaseousness" is a kind of...):
body; consistence; consistency; substance (the property of holding together and retaining its shape)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gaseousness"):
bubbliness; effervescence; frothiness (the property of giving off bubbles)
foaminess (the property of being foamy)
Derivation:
gaseous (existing as or having characteristics of a gas)
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