tippiness
nounEtymology From tippy + -ness.
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The quality of being tippy, tendency to tip or tilt over.
- It was low tide, so there was a long, sickening ladder with slimy rungs to climb down to get to the canoe. The man’s big laugh and the tippiness of the canoe were even more frightening than the ladder.1941, Emily Carr, chapter 1, in Klee Wyck:
- […] the government’s recently released rollover test results for the 2004 model year show that SUVs vary widely in their tippiness, giving buyers more incentive to shop around.2004 August 30, Daren Fonda, “The Shrinking SUV”, in Time:
1 more example
- […] a bag of personal belongings carried on the back of a wheelchair will increase its ‘tippiness’.2008, Lisa Harvey, chapter 4, in Management of Spinal Cord Injuries: A Guide for Physiotherapists, Butterworth-Heinemann, page 85: