[f. LIQUID a. + -NESS.] The quality or condition of being liquid, liquidity.
1530. Palsgr., 239/2. Lyquednesse, moystevr.
1622. Mabbe, trans. Aleman’s Guzman d’Alf., II. 54. The myre, by reason of its liquidnesse, had soked it selfe quite thorow my clothes.
1675. Sir E. Sherburne, Manilius, Pref. 11. The fluidity and Liquidness of the Heavens.
1710. J. Clarke, Rohault’s Nat. Phil. (1729), I. 119. They are mistaken in their Motion of Hardness and Liquidness.
1836. F. Mahoney, Rel. Father Prout (1859), 194. The bright river’s gliding liquidness.
1839. Tait’s Mag., VI. 584. With such quivering liquidness of tune, The Gondola draws nigh.
