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abrasive +‎ -ness

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abrasiveness (countable and uncountable, plural abrasivenesses)

  1. The property, quality or instance of being abrasive.
    • 2013, Victor Watson, Reading Series Fiction: From Arthur Ransome to Gene Kemp[1]:
      The only abrasivenesses in her stories are the ones she deliberately puts there to be smoothed away as her fictional children progress towards the desired conclusion – so that she can begin another story and do the same thing all over again.

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