costiveness

Variant of costive

costive definition

cos·tive (käs′tiv, kôs′-)

adjective

constipated or constipating: used figuratively to mean uncommunicative, stingy, etc.

Etymology: ME < OFr costeve, pp. of costever < L constipare: see constipate

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