hairiness

3 definitions found

hairiness - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Hairiness \Hair"i*ness\ (-[i^]*n[e^]s), n.
     1. The state of abounding, or being covered, with hair.
        --Johnson.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. The quality of being hairy.
        [PJC]

hairiness - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  hairiness
      n 1: the quality of having hair [syn: hairiness, pilosity]
           [ant: hairlessness]

hairiness - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  20 Moby Thesaurus words for "hairiness":
     abstruseness, arduousness, bothersomeness, burdensomeness,
     complexity, complication, difficultness, difficulty, hardness,
     intricacy, laboriousness, onerousness, oppressiveness, rigor,
     rigorousness, ruggedness, strenuousness, toilsomeness, toughness,
     troublesomeness