holeyness
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From holey + -ness. Compare Middle English holynesse (“condition of having pores”).
Noun
[edit]holeyness (uncountable)
- The quality of being holey.
- 1969 October 26, Carol Hudson, “Praise for My Grandmother”, in Maine Sunday Telegram, volume 83, number 14, Portland, Me., page 4D, column 1:
- […] the final rags soaked well, then washed by hand to scrub and scrub until the fabric died of holeyness.
- 1985 July 11, Ian Stewart, “The knots and strands of mathematical theory”, in The Guardian, page 15, column 2:
- But no topologist, however accomplished, can separate a doughnut from its hole. So holeyness is a topological property.