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PATCHINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does patchiness mean? 

PATCHINESS (noun)
  The noun PATCHINESS has 1 sense:

1. unevenness in quality or performanceplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


PATCHINESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Unevenness in quality or performance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

unevenness; variability (the quality of being uneven and lacking uniformity)

Derivation:

patchy (irregular or uneven in quality, texture, etc.)


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