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ROCKINESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of abounding in rocks and stones
Example:
due to the rockiness of the land it was quickly dry even after a heavy rain
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("rockiness" is a kind of...):
unevenness; variability (the quality of being uneven and lacking uniformity)
Derivation:
rocky (abounding in rocks or stones)