GRAININESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The quality of being composed of relatively large particles

Synonyms:

coarseness; graininess; granularity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "graininess"):

sandiness (a texture resembling that of sand)

Derivation:

grainy (composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency)