tippiness

English

Etymology

tippy +‎ -ness

Noun

tippiness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being tippy, tendency to tip or tilt over.
    • 1941, Emily Carr, Klee Wyck, Chapter 1,
      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.
    • 2004, Daren Fonda, “The Shrinking SUV,” Time, 30 August, 2004,
      […] 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.
    • 2008, Lisa Harvey, Management of Spinal Cord Injuries: A Guide for Physiotherapists, Butterworth-Heinemann, Chapter 4, p. 85,
      […] a bag of personal belongings carried on the back of a wheelchair will increase its ‘tippiness’.

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