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wooliness

wooliness is the alternative spelling of woolliness.

Meaning of woolliness

Noun

woolliness (usually uncountable, plural woollinesses)

  1. (usually) The state of being woolly.
    • Now, in spite of all sorts of defects, all sorts of woollinesses and rawnesses, the American novel is superior to either the English or the French; it is indeed superior, I think, to any European novel […]1939, Forum, volume 102, page 226

Origin of wooliness

From wooly + -ness.

Questions about wooliness

What is wooliness the alternative spelling of?
Wooliness is the alternative spelling of woolliness.

Words near wooliness in the dictionary

  1. woolie
  2. woolier
  3. woolies
  4. wooliest
  5. woolily
  6. wooliness
  7. woolish
  8. wooll
  9. Woollacott
  10. Woollahra
  11. Woollard

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wooliness (page history and authors); woolliness (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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