sketchinessn.
/ˈskɛtʃɪnɪs/ a. The state or condition of being sketchy.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > [noun] > quality of being scrappy or patchy
patchinessa1828
sketchiness1846
scrappiness1867
spottiness1902
bittiness1950
1846 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters (ed. 3) I. 119 His modes of treatment are alike removed from sketchiness or incompletion, and from exaggeration.
1885 Athenæum 6 June 719 The tendency to sketchiness is not great where the materials..lie..ready to the hand.
b. technical. (See quot. 1890.)
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1890 W. J. Gordon Foundry 173 Sketchiness is the technical term for the tendency of patterns to show lines of spacing across the cloth in a way that is objectionable.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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