SCRATCHINESS

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The roughness of a substance that causes abrasions

Synonyms:

abrasiveness; harshness; scratchiness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

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

Derivation:

scratchy (causing abrasion)

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