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Noun: thorniness  thor-nee-nus
  1. The quality of being covered with prickly thorns or spines
    - prickliness, bristliness, spininess
     
  2. A rough and bitter manner
    - bitterness, acrimony, acerbity, jaundice, tartness

Type of: disagreeableness, raggedness, roughness

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Thorndike
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Thornton
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Thornton Wilder
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