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Scorching vs Scorchingness - What's the difference?

scorching | scorchingness |

As nouns the difference between scorching and scorchingness

is that scorching is the act or result of something being scorched while scorchingness is the quality of being scorching; extreme heat.

As an adjective scorching

is very hot.

As a verb scorching

is .

scorching

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Very hot.
    • It was a scorching summer, and the ice-cream sellers plied a roaring trade.

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or result of something being scorched.
  • * 1839 , The Lancet (volume 2, page 682)
    • There were several slight scratches and scorchings about the face, sides of the neck and shoulders
  • * 1997 , Larry Dean Olsen, Outdoor Survival Skills (page 76)
    • Green wood hardens after about four or five scorchings in the fire, but several scorchings are required to drive out the sap.

    scorchingness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The quality of being scorching; extreme heat.
    • (Webster 1913)