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messiness
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun messiness has 2 senses
- messiness(n = noun.state) mess, muss, mussiness - a state of confusion and disorderliness; "the house was a mess"; "she smoothed the mussiness of the bed" is a kind of disorder, disorderliness
- messiness(n = noun.attribute) untidiness - the trait of being untidy and messy; Array is a kind of uncleanliness
Derived form adjective messy1
has particulars: disarray, disorderliness
Derived form adjective messy1
THESAURUS
messiness
amorphia, amorphism, amorphousness, anarchy, bad job, blowziness, blurriness, botch, bungling, carelessness, chaos, chintziness, confusion, dinginess, dirtiness, disorder, dowdiness, entropy, formlessness, frowziness, frumpishness, fuzziness, griminess, grubbiness, haphazardness, haziness, immundity, impurity, indecisiveness, indefiniteness, indeterminateness, loose ends, looseness, miriness, mistiness, muddiness, negligence, obscurity, orderlessness, sad work, scruffiness, seediness, shabbiness, shapelessness, shoddiness, slapdash, slatternliness, slipshoddiness, slipshodness, sloppiness, slovenliness, slovenly performance, slovenry, sluttishness, sordidness, squalidness, squalor, tackiness, tawdriness, uncleanliness, uncleanness, unclearness, unneatness, unpureness, untidiness, vagueness
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