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fibrousness

fibrousness

7.6
A quality of having many long thin parts that makes something hard to chew or tough to eat
  • noun
  • /ˈfaɪbrəsnəs/
translation icon : fibrosidad
  • The fibrousness of the meat made it difficult to chew.

Examples

  • The plant's fibrousness gives it strength and durability.

  • Chef Ramirez praised the fibrousness of the vegetables for their texture in the dish.

  • This was reflected in the low scores for flakiness, hardness, chewiness, and fibrousness, and a high score for moistness.

    Academic text (1990)

Synonyms

fibrosity
vsfibrousness
  • Specialized
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
  • Specialized
20 7.0
scar tissue
22 3.5
fibrous tissue
  • Specialized
1 4.2
fibrousness
7.6

Surface Forms

fibrousness singular
fibrousnesses plural

Morphology

fibrousness = fibrous (transparent) = fiber + ous + ness

A regular noun-forming suffix '-ness' added to the clear adjective 'fibrous'; the meaning is directly the state or quality of being fibrous.

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.