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flakiness

flakiness

6.3
Thin crisp layers in pastry that break apart easily
  • noun
  • /ˈfleɪkɪnəs/
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  • This was reflected in the low scores for flakiness, hardness, chewiness, and fibrousness, and a high score for moistness.

My problem with my dandruff and flakiness has just gone away.

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Examples

  • I also folded and rolled it out about 7-8 times for extra flakiness.

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  • This helps get rid of flakiness and the next morning you wake up and you have a perfect canvas ready for makeup application.

  • But if your skin has some kind of like dead skin or like flakiness to it, then it kind of makes it look more obvious.

  • My problem with my dandruff and flakiness has just gone away.

    Michelle Choi

  • Flakiness is definitely a sign of good American pie dough, so yes, I suppose it's cultural, but I do prefer my dough that way.

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  • The biscuit is the perfect blend of flakiness and, like, moisture.

  • The biscuit is the perfect blend of flakiness and, like, moisture.

  • And because I use prescription strength products, any kind of dryness or occasional flakiness that I still might get is taken care of.

    Wayne Goss

  • No issues, no skin irritation, no redness, no dryness, no flakiness, none of that horrid awful side effects that can happen.

    Wayne Goss

  • Using a good moisturizer can help reduce the flakiness of dry skin during winter.

Synonyms

crumbliness
vsflakiness
7.5

How easily something breaks into small pieces

breaks into thin crisp pieces rather than small fragments
friability
vsflakiness
  • Specialized
9.9

How easily something breaks into small pieces or powder

breaks into thin crisp pieces rather than powder

Antonyms

solidness
3.3

Firmness that resists pressure, like a hard rock

How Flaky

flakiness
6.3
firmness
1 3.0

Surface Forms

flakiness singular
flakinesses plural

Morphology

flakiness = flaky (transparent) = flake + y + ness

Standard noun formation from the adjective 'flaky' which in this sense retains the literal physical meaning related to forming flakes.

Etymology

Flakiness comes from the word flake, which means a thin, crisp piece like a 'snowflake'. In baking, good pastry makes many thin layers that break into flakes, so flakiness describes a pastry that is light and breaks into crisp layers.