What's the difference between costive and costiveness?
Costive
Definition:
(a.) Retaining fecal matter in the bowels; having too slow a motion of the bowels; constipated.
(a.) Reserved; formal; close; cold.
(a.) Dry and hard; impermeable; unyielding.
Example Sentences:
(1) Without financial power or overt political affiliations, young people are too often ignored in this costive age.
(2) And it is of course intrinsic to femininity that it is costive or denying to a degree, so the saying can become radical in itself, but only from a point of view of personal honesty.
(3) Children with encopresis (costiveness) have a social problem, and (BFB) offers them a valid therapeutic alternative.
Costiveness
Definition:
(n.) An unnatural retention of the fecal matter of the bowels; constipation.
(n.) Inability to express one's self; stiffness.
Example Sentences:
(1) Without financial power or overt political affiliations, young people are too often ignored in this costive age.
(2) And it is of course intrinsic to femininity that it is costive or denying to a degree, so the saying can become radical in itself, but only from a point of view of personal honesty.
(3) Children with encopresis (costiveness) have a social problem, and (BFB) offers them a valid therapeutic alternative.