[f. as prec. + -NESS.] The character or quality of being smoky.
1587. Golding, De Mornay, xiv. (1592), 222. Our minde … is after a sort troubled … by the smoakiness of the imaginations.
1611. Cotgr., Fuligine, soot, sootinesse; smoakinesse.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Fumidity, smoakiness.
1727. Bailey (vol. II.), Smokiness, a being smoky, or infected with Smoke.
1881. Daily News, 14 Dec., 5/3. The marked characteristic of last night’s fog was its smokiness.
