colloq. [f. THUS + -NESS.] The condition of being thus. Chiefly humorous.
1883. in W. Hamilton, Parodies (1886), III. 159. Expound me this thusness I pray.
1888. F. Hume, Mme. Midas, I. xv. Why all this thusness?
1888. Daily News, 27 Dec., 3/4. Why this ‘thusness’? as our Transatlantic humourists would say.
1891. Nature, 12 March, 435/1. Force produces motion, but what determines it and gives it its thusness?
