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MUSSINESS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state of confusion and disorderliness

Example:

she smoothed the mussiness of the bed

Synonyms:

mess; messiness; muss; mussiness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("mussiness" is a kind of...):

disorder; disorderliness (a condition in which things are not in their expected places)

Derivation:

mussy (dirty and disorderly)

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