brickiness

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noun

The quality of being bricky.

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Meanings

nounbrickiness (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe quality of being bricky.

    It was afterwards painted in fresco by Giulo Romano, and the colouring has its faults ; too much of that red hue, that opaque brickiness, that general diffusion of lights, and want of chiar-oscuro, that we see in his works[…]

    1825, The Phrenological Journal and Miscellany, volume 2, page 342

Origin

From bricky + -ness.

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APA

brickiness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/brickiness

MLA

“brickiness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/brickiness. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “brickiness,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/brickiness.

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