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

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

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

Lastly, Graham also made interesting observations on the combination of alcohol with salts, on the process of etherification, on the slow oxidation of phosphorus, and on the spontaneous inflammability of phosphureted hydrogen.

From Scientific Culture, and Other Essays Second Edition; with Additions by Cooke, Josiah Parsons

It is difficult to imagine that any substance introduced into the organ of digestion should retain its former principles of inflammability.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)

It is also used in fireworks on account of its inflammability.

From Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges by Redway, Jacques W. (Jacques Wardlaw)