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MUSSINESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does mussiness mean?
• MUSSINESS (noun)
The noun MUSSINESS has 1 sense:
1. a state of confusion and disorderliness
Familiarity information: MUSSINESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A state of confusion and disorderliness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
mess; messiness; muss; mussiness
Context example:
she smoothed the mussiness of the bed
Hypernyms ("mussiness" is a kind of...):
disorder; disorderliness (a condition in which things are not in their expected places)
Derivation:
mussy (dirty and disorderly)
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