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 Peter Hume Brown
This inflammability of his imagination did not alarm him.
From Atlantis by Adele Szold Seltzer
The experiment was tried: a gas was produced which had no action on limewater and which was very inflammable; what could this be but phlogiston, already recognized by this very property of extreme inflammability?
From Heroes of Science Chemists by M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison) Muir
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