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Prickliness
Definition:
(n.) The quality of being prickly, or of having many prickles.
Example Sentences:
(1) His prickliness should not detract from the points he scored against this pious style of questioning to which many news programmes resort whenever they are called upon to report on anything that intersects with popular culture.
(2) Here was a level of prickliness, as he considered the pair of fascinating games on the agenda this week, that was striking to behold.
(3) However, the response of some nociceptors, both A delta and polymodal C, differed according to the prickliness of fabrics.
(4) "A certain prickliness on the part of women writers is currently fashionable," Katie Roiphe observes writing about "the latest fracas over literary sexism" – the reaction of novelist Claire Messud to an interviewer from Publishers Weekly who asked her whether or not she would want to be friends with Nora, the narrator of her (brilliant, angry) new novel, The Woman Upstairs .