Abrasiveness

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The property, quality or instance of being abrasive. countable, uncountable

    "The only abrasivenesses in her stories are the ones she deliberately puts there to be smoothed away as her fictional children progress towards the desired conclusion – so that she can begin another story and do the same thing all over again."

  2. 2
    the quality of being sharply disagreeable wordnet
  3. 3
    the roughness of a substance that causes abrasions wordnet

Synonyms

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harshnessharshnessscratchiness

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"The only abrasivenesses in her stories are the ones she deliberately puts there to be smoothed away as her fictional children progress towards the desired conclusion – so that she can begin another story and do the same thing all over again."

Etymology

From abrasive + -ness.

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