GRAININESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does graininess mean? 

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

1. the quality of being composed of relatively large particles

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRAININESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being composed of relatively large particles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

coarseness; graininess; granularity

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

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "graininess"):

sandiness (a texture resembling that of sand)

Derivation:

grainy (composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency)