[f. as prec. + -NESS.] The quality of being corrosive.
1611. Cotgr., Corrosivité … corrosiveness.
a. 1631. Donne, Poems, To Sir E. Herbert. Corrosivenesse, or intense cold or heat.
1674. C. Goodall, Coll. Physic. Vind. (1676), 53. The corrosiveness of some juices.
1727. Bradley, Fam. Dict., s.v. Cedar, Cedar … used in Building … would reform the Malignity and Corrosiveness in the Air.
1876. W. C. Cartwright, Jesuits 225. The sublimated corrosiveness of which has been steadily gnawing away … every element of organic independence.
