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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state or quality of being gaseous.

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  • noun The condition of being gaseous

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  • noun having the consistency of a gas

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Examples

  • (Gruen himself wrote prolifically, yet with the exception of his fascinatingly detailed Shopping Town USA, for years the bible of the mall and shopping-center industry, which he cowrote with his business partner, Larry Smith, his oeuvre suffers from chronic self - congratulation and Mitteleuropean gaseousness.)

    Babes in Toyland 2006

  • (Gruen himself wrote prolifically, yet with the exception of his fascinatingly detailed Shopping Town USA, for years the bible of the mall and shopping-center industry, which he cowrote with his business partner, Larry Smith, his oeuvre suffers from chronic self - congratulation and Mitteleuropean gaseousness.)

    Babes in Toyland 2006

  • Moreover, talking has for the young the joys of personal exuberance; it is all honeycombed, or rather, filled (like champagne) with the generous gaseousness of self-analysis, self-accusation, self-pity, self-righteousness, and autobiography.

    Hortus Vitae Essays on the Gardening of Life Vernon Lee 1895

  • Bloating and gaseousness are two other frequent complaints.

    detnews.com - Local 2010

  • A 35-year-old victim received stab wounds to the chest after his friend attacked him for allegedly inexcusable gaseousness in their shared room.

    Consumerist 2009

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