graininess
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- noun
- /ˈɡreɪnɪnəs/
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grano
- The photograph had a noticeable graininess that made it feel vintage and textured.
Examples
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But the finalized image is not clean, clear, or sharp; it's got textures, graininess, and movement.
Blog text (21) -
So the burnisher is bringing the colors together and you don't see the graininess, right?
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So I I very much like your dangly earrings when you wear them, but maybe it's just because the graininess, the graininess of the screen when we're recording.
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Since the film is grainy, it may be developed in a 1:1 dilution of Kodak D-76 developer to reduce graininess.
Academic text (1995) -
On the palate, it's light, fresh, juicy, and crunchy, with a minerality and graininess that is characteristic of many Jura reds.
Blog text (21) -
He began to tell me about the soil in the pond bottom, what he'd learned about it, rubbing his thumb and fingers together to illustrate its peculiar graininess.
Academic text (1994) -
I snapped it on my phone out the window of an intercity train from Leiden, eindbestemming Den Haag Centraal (please excuse the graininess caused by the window).
Blog text (14) -
To improve the image quality, the designer worked on reducing the graininess while maintaining sharp details.
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The graininess of the old film added character to the movie, giving it a nostalgic aesthetic.
Synonyms
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The way a surface feels when it is not smooth
A thing made of large grains or particles
A rough surface with large, easily seen grains
A rough texture that is not smooth
A rough, sandy feeling from small hard bits
A rough, grainy feeling like small dry grains of sand
Antonyms
How Grainy
- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Graininess comes from the simple word grain, originally from Latin granum meaning 'seed', and later used for any small hard particle. The -ness part makes it the quality of having many of these small particles, so graininess means a rough or speckled texture made of lots of little bits.