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prickliness
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun prickliness has 1 sense
- prickliness(n = noun.attribute) bristliness, spininess, thorniness - the quality of being covered with prickly thorns or spines; Array is a kind of raggedness, roughness
Derived form adjective prickly2
CIDE DICTIONARY
prickliness, n. [From Prickly.].
The quality of being prickly, or of having many prickles. [1913 Webster]
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