[f. CHEESY + -NESS.] Cheesy quality.

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1840.  Dickens, Old C. Shop (C. D. ed.), 226 (Hoppe). [Cream being] rather sour. Beginning to border on cheesiness.

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1875.  McCosh, Scott. Philos., liii. 398. At first there was a flabbiness, a sort of cheesiness about his look.

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