scragginess means roughness; irregularity; jaggedness. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.
Etymology
From scraggy + -ness.
noun
- Roughness; irregularity; jaggedness.“He wore the scragginess of an unshaven face like a lost man in pursuit of some safe harbor.”
- Leanness or thinness, especially as tending toward haggardness; scrawniness.“[I]f Marian's girlish slimness showed faint, prophetic signs of degenerating into scragginess, George was still far too deeply in love to heed such evil and irreverent prophecies.”