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SEEDINESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does seediness mean?
• SEEDINESS (noun)
The noun SEEDINESS has 1 sense:
1. a lack of elegance as a consequence of wearing threadbare or dirty clothing
Familiarity information: SEEDINESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A lack of elegance as a consequence of wearing threadbare or dirty clothing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
manginess; seediness; shabbiness; sleaziness
Hypernyms ("seediness" is a kind of...):
inelegance (the quality of lacking refinement and good taste)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "seediness"):
raggedness (shabbiness by virtue of being in rags)
Derivation:
seedy (shabby and untidy)
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