fibrousness
1
7.6
A quality of having many long thin parts that makes something hard to chew or tough to eat
- noun
- /ˈfaɪbrəsnəs/
:
fibrosidad
- The fibrousness of the meat made it difficult to chew.
Examples
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The plant's fibrousness gives it strength and durability.
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Chef Ramirez praised the fibrousness of the vegetables for their texture in the dish.
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This was reflected in the low scores for flakiness, hardness, chewiness, and fibrousness, and a high score for moistness.
Academic text (1990)
Synonyms
9.9
The state of a material that has many thin threads and feels stringy
is the same meaning but uses a different noun form
threadiness
vsfibrousness
8.6
A quality of being made of thin threads or long thin pieces
refers more generally to containing fibers without implying thinness
How Fibrous
fibrosis
20
7.0
- Specialized
20
7.0
scar tissue
24
3.5
24
3.5
fibrous tissue
2
4.2
- Specialized
2
4.2
fibrousness
1
7.6
1
7.6
connective tissue
1
4.3
1
4.3
Surface Forms
fibrousness singular
fibrousnesses plural
Morphology
Etymology
The word fibrousness comes from fiber, which comes from the Latin fibra meaning 'thread'. So fibrousness is the quality of having many thread-like parts, and that explains why fibrous food or material often feels stringy or tough.