threadbarity
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From threadbare + -ity.
Noun
[edit]threadbarity (uncountable)
- (rare) Threadbareness.
- 1892, Sir Walter Besant, The Ivory Gate, page 68:
- The unsuccessful artist, certainly, is sometimes a most picturesque creature. So is the model. The rags and duds and threadbarity too often enter largely into the picturesque.
- 2015, Jean LeBlanc, Skating in Concord, page 79:
- […] and you will find yourself wondering if it could be true, that a town could join in such spontaneous holiday, […] despite tuberculosis, despite threadbarity, despite pennilessness […]