PRICKLINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does prickliness mean? 

• PRICKLINESS (noun)
  The noun PRICKLINESS has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being covered with prickly thorns or spines

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRICKLINESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being covered with prickly thorns or spines

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

bristliness; prickliness; spininess; thorniness

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

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

Derivation:

prickly (having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.)

 Context examples 

Brain scans showed different activity patterns in response to brushing between unaffected volunteers and the patient who felt prickliness.

(“Sixth sense” may be more than just a feeling, NIH)