patchiness
- noun
- /ˈpæʧɪnəs/
:
irregularidad
- The patchiness of the paint made the walls look uneven and unappealing.
- patchiness and diversity
So that can cause for a little bit more patchiness, a little bit of a harder time blending in your colors.
- So that can cause for a little bit more patchiness, a little bit of a harder time blending in your colors.
- This will mean that you won't get a darker tan, but it will also mean that you won't get patchiness because the fake tan reacts to the dry skin on your body.
Examples
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Going back further than that becomes increasingly problematic because of the patchiness of the records.
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One current theory is that small-scale patchiness in food supply is critical in promoting deep-sea diversity (Grassle and Sanders 1973).
Academic text (2000) -
And I did see some patchiness when I wore this the first time.
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So that can cause for a little bit more patchiness, a little bit of a harder time blending in your colors.
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It's like lighter right here and then I have some weird patchiness like almost where it didn't blend together.
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I like to really make sure to not blend it between my lashes so that there's some nice patchiness going on there.
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The discrepancy between the two may point to a patchiness in the intergalactic medium at this high redshift.
Academic text (1995) -
The distribution of sea snakes is characteristically patchy, and we are accumulating evidence that the patchiness might be explained, in part, by the distribution of rainfall both in time and in space.
Academic text (2009) -
This will mean that you won't get a darker tan, but it will also mean that you won't get patchiness because the fake tan reacts to the dry skin on your body.
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When evaluating the patchiness in the crop growth, the farmer noted areas that received less sunlight.
Synonyms
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4.8
A situation where things do not match or agree
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5.1
A state in which something is not level or smooth
A pattern of short runs of good and bad performance
An uneven quality or appearance with spots and weak parts
Not able to be trusted to work or be right
A broken, uneven quality that makes movement or sound stop and start
Antonyms
How Consistent
- Specialized
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4.6
77
3.2
30
4.8
29
5.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Patchiness comes from patch, a small piece of cloth used to 'cover' or 'fix' a hole, and from the picture of patchwork made of different pieces. So patchiness describes something made of uneven parts — 'uneven' or 'inconsistent' in quality or performance.