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BRITTLENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does brittleness mean? 

BRITTLENESS (noun)
  The noun BRITTLENESS has 1 sense:

1. firm but easily brokenplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


BRITTLENESS (noun)


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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