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English
Etymology
From costive + -ness.
Pronunciation
Noun
costiveness (uncountable)
- The state or quality of being costive; constipation.
- January 1822, Richard Reece "Letters of a Royal Physician, on Indigestion &c. &c.", in The Monthly Gazette of Health Volume 7
- 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 .
- (obsolete) Inability to express oneself; stiffness.
1792, Gilbert Wakefield, Memoirs of the Life of Gilbert Wakefield:a reverend disputant of the same coftiveness in public elocution with myself