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NUBBINESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does nubbiness mean?
• NUBBINESS (noun)
The noun NUBBINESS has 1 sense:
1. looseness or roughness in texture (as of cloth)
Familiarity information: NUBBINESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Looseness or roughness in texture (as of cloth)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
coarseness; nubbiness; tweediness
Hypernyms ("nubbiness" is a kind of...):
raggedness; roughness (a texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven)
Derivation:
nubby (of textiles; having a rough surface)
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