rockiness
1[ rok-ee-nis ]
noun
the state or condition of being rocky.
Origin of rockiness
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rockiness2
[ rok-ee-nis ]
noun
the state or condition of a person who is shaky or unsteady, as from drinking, fatigue, or illness.
Origin of rockiness
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How to use rockiness in a sentence
Our passage was attended with great difficulty, owing to the rapidity of the stream, and the rockiness of the bottom.
A minute, and then another, and we reached the confines of the wood coming out at last upon the bare rockiness of the countryside.
The House on the Borderland | William Hope HodgsonThe rockiness of the soil in Ireland is so universal that it predominates in every sort.
A Tour in Ireland | Arthur YoungFlatness is a sublime quality in certain landscapes, just as rockiness is a sublime quality in others.
Robert Browning | G. K. Chesterton
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