[f. WIRY a. + -NESS.] The quality or condition of being wiry.
1801. Med. Jrnl., V. 210. Notwithstanding the rapidity of the circulation, and the apparent wiriness of the pulse.
1824–9. Good, Study Med. (ed. 3), II. 46. Hardness and softness of the pulse, together with that vibratory thrill which has been called wiriness.
1831. Examiner, 242/1. There is no marked change in her voice, except the absence of the wiriness and tremulousness which characterized it last year.
a. 1870. Stubbs, Lect. Eur. Hist., I. xi. 135. There was … more wiriness than tenderness about his conscience.
1883. Miss M. Betham-Edwards, Disarmed, vi. You look wiriness itself.
