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messiness

noun

Etymology

From messy + -ness.

  1. derived from missum
  2. derived from mes
  3. derived from mēnsa — “table; meal”
  4. inherited from mēse
  5. inherited from mes
  6. suffixed as messy — “mess + -y”
  7. suffixed as messiness — “messy + ness”

Definitions

  1. The property of being messy.

    • She was willing to forgive his messiness when they married, and pick up after him, but not that he forgot their anniversary.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for messiness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA