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pricklinesses

pricklinesses is the plural of prickliness.

Meaning of prickliness

Noun

prickliness (usually uncountable, plural pricklinesses)

  1. (usually) The state or quality of being prickly.
    • The sharp prickliness of its finnes.1661, J. Childrey, Brit. Baconica, page 105

Questions about pricklinesses

What is pricklinesses the plural of?
Pricklinesses is the plural of prickliness.

Words near pricklinesses in the dictionary

  1. pricklice
  2. pricklier
  3. pricklies
  4. prickliest
  5. prickliness
  6. pricklinesses
  7. prickling
  8. pricklingly
  9. pricklings
  10. pricklouse
  11. prickly

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