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curliness

  • a word derived from curly.

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They’ve chosen to embrace their inner curliness and gray.

From Seattle Times Dec. 13, 2022

It is also possible, or might soon be, to predict skin color, freckling, baldness, hair curliness, tooth shape and age.

From New York Times Feb. 23, 2015

Some villagers will tell you that the hair of Alois Lang owes its luxuriant curliness to a permanent wave.

From Time Magazine Archive

The reddish tinge had vanished from her hair, but she seemed ashamed of its persistent and un-Japanese curliness, and confessed that her childhood nickname had been "Temple-chau," after Shirley Temple.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mami gently moves from my roots to my ends, smoothing my hair for an instant, until it returns again to its natural curliness, like Papi’s hair.

From "Lucky Broken Girl" by Ruth Behar