[f. THIRSTY + -NESS.] The quality or condition of being thirsty; thirst.
1583. Golding, Calvin on Deut. clxvii. 1035. There is no man but he is vexed with diuerse chaunges and sortes of thirstinesse.
1619. R. Harris, Drunkard’s Cup, 3. It … causes a dropsic and … thirstinesse.
1649. Blithe, Eng. Improv. Impr. (1653), 107. That Thirstiness in me after the Common good.
1872. Daily News, 15 July. Streams of sightseers, whose curiosity is accompanied by a general thirstiness. Ibid. (1897), 19 July, 3/1. The terrible and undoubted thirstiness of the season.
