inflammability
Americannoun
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the quality or fact of being inflammable or easily ignited.
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the quality or fact of being easily aroused or excited, especially to anger or violence.
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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
From what we have seen of Goethe's inflammability, we are prepared for the naïve remark in which he records his new sensation.
From The Youth of Goethe by Brown, Peter Hume
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
But this by no means follows; since its inflammability may depend upon some particular mode of combination, or degree of affinity, with which we are not acquainted.
From Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air by Priestley, Joseph
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