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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 performance
Familiarity information: PATCHINESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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