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How to pronounce scratchiness in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms abrasiveness, harshness
Type of raggedness, roughness
Derivation scratchy

Examples of scratchiness

scratchiness
Those textured surfaces impart a micro-abrasive scratchiness to the soft dough as it passes through them.
From the time.com
What felt much closer to home was the scratchiness and the uncomfortable feeling of wanting to swallow.
From the timesunion.com
Since then, when he has scored runs, it has been with a mix of scratchiness and pluck, not always class.
From the independent.co.uk
But now there was this undeniable imperfection, a scratchiness and swollenness familiar only from the distant past.
From the nytimes.com
Though each learns something from the other, their relationship retains its pure scratchiness from beginning to end.
From the time.com
This was a double-act that depended on mutual scratchiness, exaggerated despair and one partner's glorious intolerance of things called guests.
From the telegraph.co.uk
For Chicago journalist Susan Schwendener, the symptoms were as familiar as the runny nose of a cold or the scratchiness of a strep throat.
From the time.com
Salt rooms in rare cases can cause mild irritation to the skin and eyes, and a scratchiness in the throat that goes away after drinking water.
From the online.wsj.com
Common dry eye symptoms include scratchiness or grittiness, the feeling of a foreign particle in the eye, redness and even excessive reflex watering.
From the timesunion.com
More examples
  • Harshness: the roughness of a substance that causes abrasions
  • The property of feeling scratchy
  • (scratchier) comparative form of scratchy: more scratchy