Diureticalness

/daɪˈjuːrɛtɪkəlnəs/ noun

Definition

The quality or state of being diuretical; the degree to which something promotes urination.

Etymology

Formed by adding the noun suffix '-ness' to 'diuretical,' a highly productive suffix in English for creating abstract nouns from adjectives. This word represents an extreme level of medical terminology elaboration.

Kelly Says

This word is so obscure that you might struggle to find it in modern dictionaries—it represents an era of medical writing when scientists loved creating elaborate abstract nouns with multiple suffixes. It's a fossil of 18th-century pedantic English!

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