wiriness
(ˈwaɪərɪnɪs)
[f. wiry a. + -ness.]
The quality or condition of being wiry.
| 1801 Med. Jrnl. V. 210 Notwithstanding the rapidity of the circulation, and the apparent wiriness of the pulse. 1824–9 Good Study Med. (ed. 3) II. 46 Hardness and softness of the pulse, together with that vibratory thrill which has been called wiriness. 1831 Examiner 242/1 There is no marked change in her voice, except the absence of the wiriness and tremulousness which characterized it last year. a 1870 Stubbs Lect. Eur. Hist. i. xi. 135 There was..more wiriness than tenderness about his conscience. 1883 M. B. Betham-Edwards Disarmed vi, You look wiriness itself. |