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CRUMBLINESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does crumbliness mean?
• CRUMBLINESS (noun)
The noun CRUMBLINESS has 1 sense:
1. excessive breakableness
Familiarity information: CRUMBLINESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Excessive breakableness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
crumbliness; friability
Hypernyms ("crumbliness" is a kind of...):
breakableness (the consistency of something that breaks under pressure)
Derivation:
crumbly (easily broken into small fragments or reduced to powder)
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