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Definition of Mussiness
1. Noun. A state of confusion and disorderliness. "She smoothed the mussiness of the bed"
Generic synonyms: Disorder, Disorderliness
Derivative terms: Mess, Messy, Messy, Muss, Mussy, Mussy
Definition of Mussiness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mussiness
Literary usage of Mussiness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mark Twain: A Biography : the Personal and Literary Life of Samuel Langhorne by Albert Bigelow Paine (1912)
"The idea had grown out of the inconvenience of finding a paste-jar, and the
general mussiness of scrap-book keeping. His new plan was a self-pasting ..."
2. Camera (1907)
"... the simple Carbon Printing process without direct light and the usual carbon
mussiness, was demonstrated by Mr. Carkhuff, of the Eastman Kodak Co., ..."
3. Character and Temperament by Joseph Jastrow (1921)
"... the social esteem, imitativeness, conformity to standards—all enter and
complicate the situation. Negatively, litter, mussiness, squalor, suggest an un- ..."
4. Journalism Versus Art by Max Eastman (1916)
"And ask you, by the muse of mussiness and paleness and decline, To send me on
another note-book, open at the side, And measuring ten by eight; ..."
5. The Measurement of Certain Elements of Hand Sewing by Katharine Murdoch (1919)
"whole as to cleanliness, mussiness, and trimmed edges ' may be partly, though
not very accurately, measured. The same may be said of the arrangement of the ..."
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