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BOUNCINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bounciness mean? 

BOUNCINESS (noun)
  The noun BOUNCINESS has 1 sense:

1. the quality of a substance that is able to reboundplay

  Familiarity information: BOUNCINESS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BOUNCINESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of a substance that is able to rebound

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

bounce; bounciness

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

elasticity; snap (the tendency of a body to return to its original shape after it has been stretched or compressed)

Derivation:

bouncy (elastic; rebounds readily)


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