tweediness

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

tweedy +‎ -ness

Noun[edit]

tweediness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being tweedy.
    • 2007 April 27, Roberta Smith, “The Pointillist ‘Contagion’ in Italy”, in New York Times[1]:
      He applied its dense tweediness to an essentially realist armature, maintaining a stylistic consistency that stands out here.