Meanings
- uncountableThe quality or degree of being rumpled.
He was tallish and not at all bad looking, except for a certain haggardness and rumpledness which bespoke an evident desire to get out of his suit.
2004, Eve Ottenberg, Glum And Mighty Pagans, page 1121 more example
An interesting side-light of the embryological studies has been the discovery of insulin-induced abnormalities in beak formation and rumpledness, but the chick embryo is outside the scope of this report.
1965, Catherine Ellen O'Neill, Laboratory exercices^([sic]) to demonstrate the effect of certain hormones and hormone inhibitors on the development of the young chick, page 24
Origin
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rumpledness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rumpledness
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