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threadbarity en · NOUN

Etymology

From threadbare + -ity.

Meanings

  1. (rare, uncountable) Threadbareness.
    • […] and you will find yourself wondering if it could be true, that a town could join in such spontaneous holiday, […] despite tuberculosis, despite threadbarity, despite pennilessness […] 2015, Jean LeBlanc, Skating in Concord, page 79:
    • The unsuccessful artist, certainly, is sometimes a most picturesque creature. So is the model. The rags and duds and threadbarity too often enter largely into the picturesque. 1892, Sir Walter Besant, The Ivory Gate, page 68: