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brickiness

brickiness noun: the quality of being bricky.

Noun

brickiness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being bricky.
    • It was afterwards painted in fresco by Giulo Romano, and the colouring has its faults ; too much of that red hue, that opaque brickiness, that general diffusion of lights, and want of chiar-oscuro, that we see in his works[…]1825, The Phrenological Journal and Miscellany, volume 2, page 342

Origin of brickiness

From bricky + -ness.

Questions about brickiness

What does brickiness mean?
Brickiness means the quality of being bricky.
What part of speech is brickiness?
Brickiness is a noun.

Words near brickiness in the dictionary

  1. brickhouses
  2. brickie
  3. brickier
  4. brickies
  5. brickiest
  6. brickiness
  7. bricking
  8. bricking in
  9. bricking it
  10. bricking off
  11. bricking oneself

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