Usually means: Quality of being stiff, rough.
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  1. bristliness: Merriam-Webster
  2. bristliness: Collins English Dictionary
  3. bristliness: Vocabulary.com
  4. bristliness: Wordnik
  5. bristliness: Wiktionary
  6. Bristliness, bristliness: Dictionary.com
  7. Bristliness: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. bristliness: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Bristliness: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. bristliness: FreeDictionary.org
  11. bristliness: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. Bristliness: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  The quality of being bristly.

Similar:
brattishness, prickliness, brashiness, brattiness, brinishness, brushiness, brashness, brusqueness, bruskness, brickiness, more...

Opposite:
smoothness, sleekness, softness

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Similar:
brattishness, prickliness, brashiness, brattiness, brinishness, brushiness, brashness, brusqueness, bruskness, brickiness, more...

Opposite:
smoothness, sleekness, softness



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