Usually means: Rough, irritating texture or sensation.
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  1. scratchiness: Merriam-Webster
  2. scratchiness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. scratchiness: Collins English Dictionary
  4. scratchiness: Vocabulary.com
  5. scratchiness: Wordnik
  6. scratchiness: Wiktionary
  7. scratchiness: Dictionary.com
  8. scratchiness: Rhymezone
  9. scratchiness: FreeDictionary.org
  10. scratchiness: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. scratchiness: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. scratchiness: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (scratchiness)

▸ noun:  The property of feeling scratchy.

Similar:
abrasiveness, harshness, scratchability, itchiness, scrubbiness, touchiness, prickliness, skittishness, roughness, ruffliness, more...

Opposite:
smoothness, softness, silkiness

Types:
prickly, scratchy, itchy, stinging, biting, pinching, more...

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Similar:
abrasiveness, harshness, scratchability, itchiness, scrubbiness, touchiness, prickliness, skittishness, roughness, ruffliness, more...

Opposite:
smoothness, softness, silkiness

Types:
prickly, scratchy, itchy, stinging, biting, pinching, more...



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