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slabness

slabness noun: the state or condition of being slablike.

Noun

slabness (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The state or condition of being slablike.
    • In recent years we have come a long way from the austere slabness of the so-called functional or Bauhaus school and from such blind alleys as Le Corbusier's fancy as a young man that a home should be a "machine to live in."1976, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Currency, and Housing, The Rebirth of the American City, page 30
    • […] there was something of youth and eagerness and tension all hidden behind the slabness of his features, the greyness of shape rather than of colour. It was a face so unremarkable in its physical detail that only a couple of small razor nicks stuck in the memory.2015, Jim Williams, Farewell to Russia

Origin of slabness

From slab + -ness.

Questions about slabness

What does slabness mean?
Slabness means the state or condition of being slablike.
What part of speech is slabness?
Slabness is a noun.

Words near slabness in the dictionary

  1. slabbings
  2. slabby
  3. slabcake
  4. slabcakes
  5. slablike
  6. slabness
  7. slabs
  8. slabs on grade
  9. slabserif
  10. slabserifs
  11. slabstone

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