The Collaborative International Dictionary
Corrosive \Cor*ro"sive\, n.
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That which has the quality of eating or wearing away gradually.
[Corrosives] act either directly, by chemically destroying the part, or indirectly by causing inflammation and gangrene.
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That which has the power of fretting or irritating.
Such speeches . . . are grievous corrosives.
--Hooker. -- Cor*ro"sive*ly, adv. -- Cor*ro"sive*ness, n.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The quality or property of corrode or being corrosive, of eating away or disintegrate; acrimony. 2 (context figuratively English) Such property in some immaterial agent. 3 Some property characteristic of a corrosive substance, as its taste.
Usage examples of "corrosiveness".
That meant no local metal to replace plates' worn by years of struggling against unyielding clay and the corrosiveness of the landpoisons.
He stood there in the blue light and put his hand on his pistol, which was made out of stainless steel to protect it from the corrosiveness of road salt.
Dorothea accused herself of some meanness in this timidity: it was always odious to her to have any small fears or contrivances about her actions, but at this moment she was seeking the highest aid possible that she might not dread the corrosiveness of Celia's pretty carnally minded prose.
There was a corrosiveness to it he must guard against constantly, yet for all his wariness, the corrosion tasted sweet, as well.