combustibility
Americannoun
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the quality, or degree of being combustible; inflammability; flammability.
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the tendency to become easily excited or aroused emotionally.
Other Word Forms
- incombustibility noun
- non-combustibility noun
Example Sentences
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But Roberts wasn’t about to replace Snell, not at this stage of the game, not with the combustibility of his relievers.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 6, 2025
"We usually associate fire activity with increasing heat -- drier conditions, enhanced combustibility, and so on," Allen said.
From Science Daily • May 29, 2024
We are, for the most part, on our own, in figuring out how to make this American experiment work with the least amount of combustibility, as possible.
From Salon • Nov. 23, 2023
The result is an environment of persistent combustibility in a nation with more than 200 million people who belong to religious minorities — many feeling alienated, humiliated or directionless.
From New York Times • Jun. 21, 2023
But the action of thyroid could really be simulated only by some substance that could be introduced into the best possible of gasoline mixtures, to increase its combustibility by a hundred per cent or more.
From The Glands Regulating Personality by Berman, Louis, M.D.
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