Stuffiness

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Stuffiness \Stuff"i*ness\, n.
     The quality of being stuffy.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  stuffiness
       n : dull and pompous gravity [syn: {stodginess}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  203 Moby Thesaurus words for "stuffiness":
     Quakerishness, THI, airlessness, antiquation, aridity, aridness,
     authoritarianism, barrenness, bigotry, blind side, blind spot,
     blinders, bloodlessness, callowness, cantankerousness,
     censoriousness, characterlessness, childishness, closed mind,
     closeness, colorlessness, contrariness, cramped ideas, cussedness,
     deadness, dearth of ideas, demureness, demurity, difficultness,
     dismalness, disuse, dourness, dragginess, dreariness, dryness,
     dullness, dustiness, effeteness, emptiness, etiolation,
     false modesty, fanaticism, fetidity, fetidness, flatness,
     fogyishness, foulness, frowardness, frowst, frowstiness,
     frowziness, funkiness, fustiness, grandiloquence, heaviness,
     hideboundness, hollowness, humidity, humidness, illiberality,
     immaturity, imprudence, inadvisability, inanity, inattention,
     inconsideration, indiscreetness, indiscretion, inexcitability,
     inexpedience, infecundity, infertility, inflation, injudiciousness,
     insipidity, insipidness, insularism, insularity, irascibility,
     irrationality, jejunity, leadenness, lifelessness,
     little-mindedness, littleness, lowness of spirit, malodorousness,
     mauvaise honte, mean mind, meanness, mildew, moldiness, mugginess,
     must, mustiness, narrow sympathies, narrow views,
     narrow-mindedness, narrowness, nearsightedness, noisomeness,
     odium theologicum, odorousness, offensiveness, old-fashionedness,
     old-fogyishness, oppression, oppressiveness, orneriness,
     orotundity, out-of-dateness, overmodesty, paleness, pallor,
     parochialism, perverseness, perversite, perversity, pettiness,
     petty mind, pointlessness, pokiness, pomposity, pompousness,
     ponderousness, pontificality, pontification, priggishness,
     primness, prosaicism, prosaicness, prosaism, prosiness,
     provincialism, prudery, prudishness, puerility, purblindness,
     puritanicalness, putridness, rancidity, rancidness, rankness,
     reasonlessness, reastiness, recklessness, repulsiveness,
     rottenness, sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, self-importance,
     senselessness, shortsightedness, shut mind, slowness, smallness,
     smelliness, smugness, solemnity, spiritlessness, staidness,
     staleness, sterility, stickiness, stiff-neckedness, stiffness,
     stinkingness, stodginess, stolidity, straitlacedness, sulkiness,
     sullenness, superannuation, superficiality, swelter, tastelessness,
     tediousness, temperature-humidity index, thoughtlessness,
     turgidity, uncatholicity, uncreativeness, unfancifulness,
     unfashionableness, unimaginativeness, unintelligence,
     uninterestingness, unliveliness, unoriginality, unpoeticalness,
     unreason, unreasonableness, unsensibleness, unsoundness,
     unthoughtfulness, unwisdom, unwiseness, vapidity, vapidness,
     waywardness, witlessness, woodenness, wrongheadedness