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Noun: abrasiveness  u'brey-siv-nus
  1. The roughness of a substance that causes abrasions
    - harshness, scratchiness
     
  2. The quality of being sharply disagreeable

Derived forms: abrasivenesses

See also: abrasive

Type of: disagreeableness, raggedness, roughness

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