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brittlenesses

brittlenesses is the plural of brittleness.

Meaning of brittleness

Noun

brittleness (usually uncountable, plural brittlenesses)

  1. (usually) The state of being brittle (in various senses).
    • [David] Riesman did his best, in prefaces to two subsequent editions of the book (at great length in 1961, and, with some brittleness about having to do it once more, in 1969), to correct this reading—to insist that he never meant to suggest that Americans now were any more conformist than they...2013 May 7, Gideon Lewis-Kraus, “Yelp and the Wisdom of "The Lonely Crowd"”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Aug 2023
    Synonyms:
    brittility

Questions about brittlenesses

What is brittlenesses the plural of?
Brittlenesses is the plural of brittleness.

Words near brittlenesses in the dictionary

  1. brittled
  2. brittlegill
  3. brittlegills
  4. brittlely
  5. brittleness
  6. brittlenesses
  7. brittler
  8. brittles
  9. brittlesome
  10. brittlest
  11. brittlestar

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