Home › Words › S › stiflingnessstiflingnessstiflingness means the state or condition of being stifling.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, stiflingness ranks #23,627 of 42,747 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom stifling + -ness.nounThe state or condition of being stifling.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).