stuffiness
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4.1
- noun
- /ˈstʌfɪnəs/
:
saturación
- She struggled to concentrate in the stuffiness of the crowded classroom.
Examples
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She puts on her white nightgown and goes outside to the terrace, where the stuffiness of the apartment opens to a lovely August night.
Fiction book (1994) -
The heat outside was stifling, and on top of it, there was the stuffiness, the jostling crowds, bricks and mortar everywhere, scaffolding, dust, and that peculiar summer stench.
Fiction book (1991) -
She'd been worried by the crowd and the stuffiness.
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What Grace noticed about Leah's house now was stuffiness.
Fiction book (1997) -
Finally, someone came into her room to check on her, some well-meaning neighbor or other, and opened a window against the heat and stuffiness.
Fiction book (1992) -
The shutters were open, but the stuffiness that had accumulated in the rooms during the night had not yet dispersed.
Fiction book (1996) -
One remarkable picture was of a woman of the night in her professionally revealing attire, and I stared at this until I began to feel the stuffiness of the air, then nearly dropped it with embarrassment when a man appeared from the back room.
Fiction book (1993) -
Fall and spring in Houston, Texas, can be perfect, having mild temperatures with low humidity, days to leave the windows open allowing a comfortable breeze with fresh air clearing out the air-conditioned stuffiness of summer.
Blog text (1) -
The heat in the streets was stifling, and on top of it, there was the stuffiness, the jostling crowds, the bricks and mortar everywhere, scaffolding, dust, and that peculiar summer stench.
Fiction book (1991) -
After several hours without air circulation, the stuffiness in the room made it hard to breathe.
Synonyms
2
2.8
Air that smells old and feels heavy
1
9.9
Stuffy, smoky air in a room that feels unpleasant to breathe
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6.7
A stuffy feeling when a place has little fresh air
Warm air that feels unpleasant because it does not move and has little fresh air
A lack of fresh air in a place that makes it hard to breathe
Antonyms
How Stuffy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Stuffiness comes from the simple word stuff, which meant 'to fill', plus the ending -ness that makes a quality. If a room is full or 'filled' with people or warm air so it feels closed and hard to breathe, that is stuffiness.