crampedness
crampedness noun: the state or quality of being cramped.
Noun
crampedness (uncountable)
- The state or quality of being cramped.
- They hadn't reckoned with the attendant personality disorders, which the coldness, the darkness, the dampness, the crampedness and the loneliness were doing nothing to decrease.1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 136
Origin of crampedness
From cramped + -ness.
Questions about crampedness
- What does crampedness mean?
- Crampedness means the state or quality of being cramped.
- What part of speech is crampedness?
- Crampedness is a noun.
Words near crampedness in the dictionary
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