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BRITTLENESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does brittleness mean?
• BRITTLENESS (noun)
The noun BRITTLENESS has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: BRITTLENESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Firm but easily broken
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
brittleness; crispiness; crispness
Hypernyms ("brittleness" is a kind of...):
breakableness (the consistency of something that breaks under pressure)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "brittleness"):
flakiness (having or breaking into thin crisp flakes)
Derivation:
brittle (having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped)
brittle ((of metal or glass) not annealed and consequently easily cracked or fractured)
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