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abrasiveness

abrasiveness noun: the property, quality or instance of being abrasive.

Noun

abrasiveness (countable and uncountable, plural abrasivenesses)

  1. The property, quality or instance of being abrasive.
    • 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.2013, Victor Watson, Reading Series Fiction: From Arthur Ransome to Gene Kemp

abrasiveness meaning in Tamil and Malayalam

abrasiveness in Tamil

சிராய் பண்பு, தேய்திறம், சிராய்திறம், சிராய்மை

abrasiveness in Malayalam

രൂക്ഷമായ, മിനുക്കാനുള്ള, പരുഷമായ, മര്യാദയില്ലാത്ത, ഉരയ്‌ക്കാൻ ഉപയോഗിക്കുന്ന, ഹാനി

Forms of abrasiveness

pluralabrasivenesses

Origin of abrasiveness

From abrasive + -ness.

Questions about abrasiveness

What does abrasiveness mean?
Abrasiveness means the property, quality or instance of being abrasive.
What is abrasiveness in Tamil?
Abrasiveness in Tamil is சிராய் பண்பு, தேய்திறம், சிராய்திறம். See Abrasiveness meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is abrasiveness?
Abrasiveness is a noun.
What is the plural of abrasiveness?
The plural of abrasiveness is abrasivenesses.

Words near abrasiveness in the dictionary

  1. abrasive disc
  2. abrasive discs
  3. abrasive paper
  4. abrasive papers
  5. abrasively
  6. abrasiveness
  7. abrasivenesses
  8. abrasives
  9. abrasivities
  10. abrasivity
  11. abrasor

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Adapted from Wiktionary: abrasiveness (page history and authors); abrasiveness (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); abrasiveness (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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