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FLAKINESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having or breaking into thin crisp flakes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("flakiness" is a kind of...):
brittleness; crispiness; crispness (firm but easily broken)
Derivation:
flaky (made of or easily forming flakes)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Informal terms for insanity
Synonyms:
craziness; daftness; flakiness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("flakiness" is a kind of...):
insanity (relatively permanent disorder of the mind)
Derivation:
flakey; flaky (conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual)
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