hairiness
IPA: hˈɛrinʌs
noun
- The characteristic of being hairy.
- (technical) A characteristic of yarn: the proportion of fibre ends that stick out and are not embedded in the yarn body.
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Examples of "hairiness" in Sentences
- His skin was different too, coarser feeling, and his hairiness was a delight.
- Would it ignite a certain uncomfortable awareness of my female smoothness and your manly hairiness?
- His hairiness was the one point which impressed itself upon Thaddeus Sholto when he saw him at the window.
- In the spirit of "everything matchstick thin", I added enoki mushrooms for extra "hairiness" - and it didn't hurt at all!
- Applicable when possession is normative. e.g., blindness and sight, toothlessness and toothedness, hairiness and baldness.
- It made his strength, his height, his hairiness, his solidity more real and present and caused Malik to feel proud of the life they had before Ali came.