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HILLINESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does hilliness mean?
• HILLINESS (noun)
The noun HILLINESS has 1 sense:
1. the quality of being hilly
Familiarity information: HILLINESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being hilly
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Context example:
the hilliness of West Virginia
Hypernyms ("hilliness" is a kind of...):
ruggedness (the quality of being topologically uneven)
Derivation:
hilly (having hills and crags)
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