DUSTINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dustiness mean? 

• DUSTINESS (noun)
  The noun DUSTINESS has 1 sense:

1. the state of being covered with dust

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DUSTINESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The state of being covered with dust

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

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

dirtiness; uncleanness (the state of being unsanitary)

Derivation:

dusty (covered with a layer of dust)

 Context examples 

It was a dusty old 'ouse, too, though nothin' to the dustiness of the 'ouse we tooked the bloomin' boxes from.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)