Definition of Threadiness

1. n. Quality of being thready.

Definition of Threadiness

1. Noun. The state or quality of being thready. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Threadiness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Threadiness

threadability
threadable
threadbare
threadbareness
threaded
threaden
threader
threaders
threadfin
threadfins
threadfish
threadfishes
threadgoldite
threadier
threadiest
threadiness (current term)
threadinesses
threading
threadjacker
threadjackers
threadjacking
threadjackings
threadleaf groundsel
threadless
threadlike
threads
threadsafe
threadworm
threadworms
thready

Literary usage of Threadiness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Best Short Stories of ... and the Yearbook of the American Short Story edited by Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien (1922)
"It was bad for her neuralgic eye, the meanderings of the filet pattern, but she liked the delicate threadiness of the handiwork, and Mr. Latz liked watching ..."

2. Text-book of materia medica for nurses by Lavinia L. Dock (1898)
"... also sparks before the eyes and other disturbances of sight ; sleeplessness ; fall of temperature ; and irregularity or threadiness of the pulse. ..."

3. Text-book of Materia Medica for Nurses by Lavinia L. Dock (1921)
"... also sparks before the eyes and other disturbances of sight; sleeplessness; fall of temperature; and irregularity or threadiness of the pulse. ..."

4. A Manual of Marine Engineering: Comprising the Designing, Construction, and by Albert Edward Seaton (1913)
"When mineral oil has been treated in this way it •can generally be detected by the tendency to threadiness when the cork is •drawn from the bottle of the ..."

5. A Treatise on diseases of the joints by Richard Barwell (1861)
"... the surgeon will observe that the fluid poured forth from the wound becomes more and more turbid, and loses gradually the threadiness of synovia, ..."

6. A Treatise on diseases of the joints by Richard Barwell (1861)
"... the surgeon will observe, that the fluid poured forth from the wound becomes more and more turbid, and loses gradually the threadiness of synovia, ..."

7. The London Medical and Physical Journal (1827)
"The pulse was about 100, small, but without the threadiness usually attendant on peritoneal inflammation. By direction of the dresser, he was placed in a ..."

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