noun
looseness or roughness in texture (as of cloth)
• Syn: ↑coarseness, ↑tweediness
• Derivationally related forms: ↑tweedy (for: ↑tweediness), ↑nubby, ↑coarse (for: ↑coarseness)
• Hypernyms: ↑roughness, ↑raggedness
Useful english dictionary. 2012.