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roughness - a texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven |
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raggedness |
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smoothness the quality of being free from errors or interruptions; "the five-speed manual gearbox is smoothness personified"
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texture the physical composition of something (especially with respect to the size and shape of the small constituents of a substance); "breadfruit has the same texture as bread"; "sand of a fine grain"; "fish with a delicate flavor and texture"; "a stone of coarse grain"
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scaliness the property of being scaly
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coarseness,
nubbiness,
tweediness the quality of lacking taste and refinement
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burl,
knot,
slub a large rounded outgrowth on the trunk or branch of a tree
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abrasiveness,
harshness,
scratchiness the quality of being sharply disagreeable
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coarseness,
graininess,
granularity the quality of lacking taste and refinement
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shagginess roughness of nap produced by long woolly hairs
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bumpiness the texture of a surface that has many bumps
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bristliness,
prickliness,
spininess,
thorniness the quality of being covered with prickly thorns or spines
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roughness - harsh or severe speech or behavior; "men associate the roughness of nonstandard working-class speech with masculinity"; "the roughness of her voice was a signal to keep quiet" |
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intensification action that makes something stronger or more extreme
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