inflammability

American  

[in-flam-uh-bil-i-tee] / ɪnˌflæm əˈbɪl ɪ ti /

noun

1. the quality or fact of being inflammable or easily ignited.

2. the quality or fact of being easily aroused or excited, especially to anger or violence.

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Other Word Forms

• noninflammability noun

Example Sentences

Without it modern aviation would be impossible, but as every airman knows, its touchy inflammability makes it more dangerous than dynamite.

From Time Magazine Archive

They have reported Japanese militarism, atrocities, the absurdities of Emperor worship, the inflammability of Japan's paper cities, the inability of Japanese industry to implement a modern war.

From Time Magazine Archive

With a view to obtaining a dust of uniform purity and inflammability.

From Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 Federal Investigations of Mine Accidents, Structural Materials and Fuels. Paper No. 1171 by Wilson, Herbert M.

Even my brief tour of the island had shown me, that there were materials of wilder inflammability in the bosom of the south than in the north.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 by Various

There is a great difference in the inflammability of bark, some, like that of the big trees of California, Fig.

From Wood and Forest by Noyes, William