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MUSSINESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A state of confusion and disorderliness
Example:
she smoothed the mussiness of the bed
Synonyms:
mess; messiness; muss; mussiness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("mussiness" is a kind of...):
disorder; disorderliness (a condition in which things are not in their expected places)
Derivation:
mussy (dirty and disorderly)