ROCKINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rockiness mean? 

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

1. the quality of abounding in rocks and stones

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROCKINESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of abounding in rocks and stones

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Context example:

due to the rockiness of the land it was quickly dry even after a heavy rain

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

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

Derivation:

rocky (abounding in rocks or stones)