🌱 Spreading easily 🌾 Full of weeds 🌿 Like cannabis

weediness

6.2

Being full of weeds or looking thin and weak

noun
/ˈwiːdiness/

: maleza

After months of neglect, the garden's weediness was obvious to everyone.

Examples

The weediness of the field made it difficult to grow healthy crops.
His weediness made him look much younger and weaker than his classmates.
The garden's weediness made it difficult to grow vegetables.
His lawn suffered from severe weediness this summer.
The weediness of the abandoned lot created a habitat for pests and made the area look untidy.
After neglecting the lawn for weeks, the weediness became a major eyesore for the neighborhood.
His garden's weediness hindered the growth of the flowers, leaving it looking sparse and uninviting.

Synonyms

weedy appearance

vsweediness

6.2

An untidy look caused by many plants growing out of control

emphasizes thin, weak appearance rather than overgrown untidiness

How Overgrown

overgrowth

2 5.2

weediness

6.2

weedless

1 3.0

Surface Forms

weediness singular

weedinesses plural

Morphology

weediness = weedy (transparent) = weed + y + ness

Direct and regular derivation from 'weed' → 'weedy' → 'weediness' with the meaning 'full of weeds' or 'thin/weak'.

Etymology

Weediness comes from weed and the adjective weedy, where weed is a 'wild plant' and weedy can mean 'thin' or 'weak'. So weediness can mean a place full of weeds or the quality of being thin and frail.