burningness

English

Etymology

From burning +‎ -ness.

Noun

burningness (uncountable)

1. (rare) The property of burning or seeming to burn.
   • 2011, Jason Harding, T. S. Eliot in Context, page 299:

     Finally the sheer unfulfilled burningness of sexual desire seems heightened and beautiful in the regal past, but completely passive, beaten down and 'supine' in the low-life present.