[-NESS.] The quality of being stringy (see the adj.).

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1699.  Evelyn, Acetaria, 57. The bigger Roots … should … eat short and quick, without stringiness.

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1842.  Loudon, Suburban Hort., 665. The toughness and stringyness of the London asparagus.

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1856.  W. B. Carpenter, Microsc., 423. The bundles … which give ‘stringiness’ to various esculent vegetable substances.

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1884.  McLaren, Spinning (ed. 2), 31. Then add 71/2 gallons more lye of double the strength, and about 6 lbs. of pearl-ash, to prevent stringiness.

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