What does messiness mean?

Definitions for messiness
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This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word messiness.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. mess, messiness, muss, mussinessnoun

    a state of confusion and disorderliness

    "the house was a mess"; "she smoothed the mussiness of the bed"

  2. untidiness, messinessnoun

    the trait of being untidy and messy

Wiktionary

  1. messinessnoun

    The property of being messy.

ChatGPT

  1. messiness

    Messiness is a state or condition characterized by disorder, disorganization, or untidiness. It can refer to physical clutter or filth in a location, or it can symbolically refer to situations or issues that are complicated, chaotic or confusing.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of messiness in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of messiness in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of messiness in a Sentence

  1. Theodore Roszak:

    To bemoan the messiness of politics is not just a folly it betrays a dangerous impatience with basic realities. It is like becoming disturbed that people do not fall in love sensibly -- and so deciding to computerize the problem.

  2. Donald Fennoy:

    There was something shifting that forced us to deal with politics way more than we ever did before. Democracy is messy, i think Covid brought out the hyper messiness.

  3. Andrew Cooper:

    But what it means is there's a huge amount of messiness, a tilting toward informality (so) the legitimacy of present leaders is somewhat undercut.

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