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BUMPINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bumpiness mean? 

BUMPINESS (noun)
  The noun BUMPINESS has 1 sense:

1. the texture of a surface that has many bumpsplay

  Familiarity information: BUMPINESS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BUMPINESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The texture of a surface that has many bumps

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("bumpiness" is a kind of...):

raggedness; roughness (a texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven)

Derivation:

bumpy (covered with or full of bumps)


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