spreadingness

English

Etymology

spreading + -ness

Noun

spreadingness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of spreading, or tending to spread
    • 2009 January 18, Art Winslow, “Ordinary Madness”, in New York Times:
      Indeed, the “very cleverness and spreadingness of murder” may have gathered her father within its compass [] .
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