patchiness
(ˈpætʃɪnɪs)
[f. patchy a. + -ness.]
Patchy quality or condition.
| a 1828 D. Wordsworth Jrnl. (1941) II. 93 The character of the Lake..is of free chearfulness{ddd}it is not disturbed by buildings. I complained not of patchiness or spottiness. 1862 H. Spencer First Princ. ii. xix. §150 (1875) 407 Irregularities of distribution..would produce that patchiness which distinguishes the heavens. 1887 R. Garnett Carlyle vii. 128 Nothing seems to have struck him so much as the general patchiness of the country. |