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Scragginess vs Scraggliness - What's the difference?

scragginess | scraggliness |

As nouns the difference between scragginess and scraggliness

is that scragginess is roughness; irregularity; jaggedness while scraggliness is roughness, scruffiness, or unkemptness.

scragginess

English

Noun

(-)
  • Roughness; irregularity; jaggedness.
  • * 2004 , Norman R. Beaupré, Marginal Enemies , ISBN 9781595261427, p. 59:
    • 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.
  • * 1900 , , "A Wrong Altar" in Cupid's Garden .
    • [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.
  • * 1922 , , Man and Maid , ch. 21:
    • There is not the least look of scragginess about her, just extreme slenderness, a small-boned creature of perhaps five foot four or five.

    Related terms

    * scraggy * scraggily

    scraggliness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Roughness, scruffiness, or unkemptness.
  • * 2002 April 5, Charles McGrath, " Rituals: Great Ways to Wreck A Quiet Weekend," New York Times (retrieved 20 Sep. 2011):
    • The great thing about mowing is that it is visually satisfying; with each overlapping pass, one more swath is shorn, and where there was once scraggliness and unkemptness, now there is neatness and trimness.
  • * 2002 April 18, Hollywood's Such a Mess These Days: Left and right, stars wear their hear unkept, Lexington Herald-Leader , p. E3 (retrieved 20 Sep. 2011):
    • Ditto for Uma Thurman, whose loose blonde strands were defiant in their scraggliness . Your mother would have called this kind of hair a bird's nest.
  • * 2004 , Carla Neggers, White Hot , ISBN 9780743496339, p. 195:
    • He was dressed casually, expensively, a contrast to his older brother's ragged, threadbare clothes and general scraggliness .