[ad. F. fuliginosité, f. L. fūlīginōs-us (see next) + -ITY.] The condition or quality of being fuliginous or sooty; sooty matter, soot.
1758. Reid, trans. Macquer’s Chym., I. 185. A short tapering funnel … which will serve for a chimney to carry off all fuliginosities.
1799. Kirwan, Geol. Ess., 471. All fuliginosities arising from combustion on the surface of the earth are finally carried into the sea.
fig. 1837. Carlyle, Mirabeau, Ess. (1840), V. 136. In the old Marquis there dwells withal … a latent fury and fuliginosity very perverting.
1895. Expositor, Nov., 350. This might be due to intentional fuliginosity—(if I may coin a word) but it cannot be the case that the whole of the Talmud has been wilfully obscured.
