Definition of Mussiness

1. Noun. A state of confusion and disorderliness. "She smoothed the mussiness of the bed"

Exact synonyms: Mess, Messiness, Muss
Generic synonyms: Disorder, Disorderliness
Derivative terms: Mess, Messy, Messy, Muss, Mussy, Mussy

Definition of Mussiness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mussiness

musquitoes
musquitos
musrol
musrols
muss
muss-be
musse
mussed
mussel
mussel shrimp
mussels
musses
mussier
mussiest
mussily
mussiness (current term)
mussinesses
mussing
mussitate
mussitated
mussitates
mussitating
mussitation
mussitations
mussite
mussy
must've
must(a)
must-buy

Literary usage of Mussiness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Mark Twain: A Biography : the Personal and Literary Life of Samuel Langhorne by Albert Bigelow Paine (1912)
"The idea had grown out of the inconvenience of finding a paste-jar, and the general mussiness of scrap-book keeping. His new plan was a self-pasting ..."

2. Camera (1907)
"... the simple Carbon Printing process without direct light and the usual carbon mussiness, was demonstrated by Mr. Carkhuff, of the Eastman Kodak Co., ..."

3. Character and Temperament by Joseph Jastrow (1921)
"... the social esteem, imitativeness, conformity to standards—all enter and complicate the situation. Negatively, litter, mussiness, squalor, suggest an un- ..."

4. Journalism Versus Art by Max Eastman (1916)
"And ask you, by the muse of mussiness and paleness and decline, To send me on another note-book, open at the side, And measuring ten by eight; ..."

5. The Measurement of Certain Elements of Hand Sewing by Katharine Murdoch (1919)
"whole as to cleanliness, mussiness, and trimmed edges ' may be partly, though not very accurately, measured. The same may be said of the arrangement of the ..."

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