costiveness
nounUK /ˈkɒstɪvnəs/
Etymology From costive + -ness.
1
The state or quality of being costive; constipation.
- The new cases prove that in habitual costiveness or inactivity of the bowels, galvanism is a more valuable remedy, and that its effects are permanent .January 1822, Richard Reece [editor] "Letters of a Royal Physician, on Indigestion &c. &c.", in The Monthly Gazette of Health Volume 7
2
Obsolete Inability to express oneself; stiffness.
- a reverend disputant of the same coftiveness in public elocution with myself1792, Gilbert Wakefield, Memoirs of the Life of Gilbert Wakefield: