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PRICKLINESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being covered with prickly thorns or spines
Synonyms:
bristliness; prickliness; spininess; thorniness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("prickliness" is a kind of...):
raggedness; roughness (a texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven)
Derivation:
prickly (having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.)