SCALINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does scaliness mean? 

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

1. the property of being scaly

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCALINESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The property of being scaly

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

raggedness; roughness (a texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven)

Derivation:

scaly (having the body covered or partially covered with thin horny plates, as some fish and reptiles)

scaly (rough to the touch; covered with scales or scurf)

 Context examples 

It is characterized by the presence of discoid skin plaques showing varying degrees of edema, erythema, scaliness, follicular plugging, and skin atrophy.

(Discoid Lupus Erythematosus, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)