Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being fiery or burning, or vehement or impetuous, etc.: as, the fieriness of the sky; the fieriness of a horse.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being fiery; heat; acrimony; irritability.
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- noun The quality of being
fiery
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- noun a passionate and quick-tempered nature
- noun the heat or the color of fire
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Examples
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But to contend with leukemia, Zubrod knew, was to contend with its fieriness and brittleness, its moody, volcanic unpredictability.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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But to contend with leukemia, Zubrod knew, was to contend with its fieriness and brittleness, its moody, volcanic unpredictability.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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But to contend with leukemia, Zubrod knew, was to contend with its fieriness and brittleness, its moody, volcanic unpredictability.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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If we can find an instance of a locus of smoke which is also a locus of the absence of some property, coldness say, then coldness cannot be identical with fieriness.
Analytic Philosophy in Early Modern India Ganeri, Jonardon 2009
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It stores well at room temperature for months, though the fieriness may go down a bit on prolonged storage.
Idli Podi - Kerala Style Jyothsna 2009
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In the end, I certainly do have a gaze – an ideal woman. it is not the same as anyone else. the way she moves, the way she looks, the manner in which she speaks, her intelligence, her fieriness/submission, her hobbies, etc. – this concept is unique to me.
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Hot potato, chilled chilli-garlic ginger mix and the fieriness of ginger.
JFI ginger-avocado filled with myoga bilbo 2007
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Thus the thing that appears as fire here and now is not fire in its own right: its fieriness is only a temporary characterization of it.
Plato's Timaeus Zeyl, Donald 2009
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Hot potato, chilled chilli-garlic ginger mix and the fieriness of ginger.
Archive 2007-02-01 bilbo 2007
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It stores well at room temperature for months, though the fieriness may go down a bit on prolonged storage.
Archive 2009-03-01 Jyothsna 2009
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