ABRASIVENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does abrasiveness mean? 

• ABRASIVENESS (noun)
  The noun ABRASIVENESS has 2 senses:

1. the roughness of a substance that causes abrasions

2. the quality of being sharply disagreeable

  Familiarity information: ABRASIVENESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ABRASIVENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The roughness of a substance that causes abrasions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

abrasiveness; harshness; scratchiness

Hypernyms ("abrasiveness" is a kind of...):

raggedness; roughness (a texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven)

Derivation:

abrasive (causing abrasion)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The quality of being sharply disagreeable

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("abrasiveness" is a kind of...):

disagreeableness (the quality of being disagreeable and unpleasant)

Derivation:

abrasive (sharply disagreeable; rigorous)