seediness

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seediness - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Seediness \Seed`i*ness\, n.
     The quality or state of being seedy, shabby, or worn out; a
     state of wretchedness or exhaustion. [Colloq.] --G. Eliot.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           What is called seediness, after a debauch, is a plain
           proof that nature has been outraged.     --J. S.
                                                    Blackie.
     [1913 Webster]

seediness - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  seediness
      n 1: a lack of elegance as a consequence of wearing threadbare
           or dirty clothing [syn: shabbiness, seediness,
           manginess, sleaziness]