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smeariness en · NOUN

Etymology

From smeary + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The quality of being smeary.
    • The smeariness of the marble-topped hall table did not offend her. 1919, Dorothy Richardson, chapter 1, in The Tunnel,, London: Duckworth, page 1:
    • She wore a limp blouse over blue jeans and had the body lines of a teenager, the crooks and skews and smeariness, and a way of merging with furniture, a kind of draped indecision. 1991, Don DeLillo, Mao II, New York: Viking, Part 1, Chapter 4, p. 56: