Pulpinesses

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. The quality or state of being soft and juicy while having a smooth texture
2. A characteristic of food, especially fruit, that indicates a moist, tender, and somewhat mushy quality
3. The condition wherein something possesses the properties of pulp, often associated with ripeness or over-ripeness in edible items

Etymology: "Pulpinesses" is the plural of "pulpiness," which is formed from "pulpy" plus the suffix "-ness," the English suffix that turns an adjective into a noun for a quality or state. The root is "pulp," borrowed into English from Latin "pulpa," meaning flesh or the soft, fleshy part of a fruit. "Pulpy" simply describes something that has that soft, fleshy quality. The suffix does most of the work here. "-ness" traces back through Old English "-nes" to Proto-Germanic roots, and it attaches freely to adjectives, so "pulpy" became "pulpiness" with no special history of its own. Its plural, "pulpinesses," is used when speaking of several distinct instances or kinds of that quality, as in comparing the textures of different fruits.