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How to pronounce graininess in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms coarseness, granularity
Type of raggedness, roughness
Has types sandiness
Derivation grainy

Examples of graininess

graininess
See, Instagram's filters reduce graininess and so does the texture of canvas.
From the techcrunch.com
Not too sweet, it was a lovely dessert but for some graininess in the cream filling.
From the jsonline.com
More likely you're confusing the graininess of the lithograph for artefacts.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Few others were convinced, however, because of the graininess of the images.
From the time.com
But the graininess at the bottom left of the picture is harder to explain.
From the newscientist.com
Indoor shots, however, suffered from a significant amount of graininess.
From the washingtonpost.com
It's nutty, smooth, caramel-y, with a slight graininess at the finish.
From the boston.com
The picture lacks depth, definition, and the rather charming graininess of the original.
From the guardian.co.uk
It showed little of the graininess that plagued last year's LifeCams.
From the cnn.com
More examples
  • Coarseness: the quality of being composed of relatively large particles
  • The state of being grainy; granularity
  • Clumps of silver halide crystals in the emulsion which are visible to the human eye because of spaces between the crystals.
  • The visual appearance of granularity.
  • The sand-like or granular appearance of a negative, print, or slide. Graininess becomes more pronounced with faster film and the degree of enlargement.
  • An effect seen in the print as randomly occurring light and dark specks or grains, due to roughing of the edges of halftone dots, random specks of ink between dots, discontinuous ink films, or specular reflectance off inked fibers in the surface of the paper.
  • The objectionable appearance of a pimply film due to aggregations of pigments, which can usually be detected with the microscope.
  • The subjective impression of visible clumps of particles (silver halide crystals), seen in fast films, which may have to be used in low-light conditions.
  • The objectionable appearance of small, grain-like particles in a finishing material or in