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RICKETINESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does ricketiness mean?
• RICKETINESS (noun)
The noun RICKETINESS has 1 sense:
1. the quality of not being steady or securely fixed in place
Familiarity information: RICKETINESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of not being steady or securely fixed in place
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
ricketiness; unsteadiness
Hypernyms ("ricketiness" is a kind of...):
movability; movableness (the quality of being movable; capable of being moved or rearranged)
Derivation:
rickety (inclined to shake as from weakness or defect)
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