Definitions

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  • noun The state or condition of being skinless; absence of skin.
  • noun figuratively sensitiveness; vulnerability.

Etymologies

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skinless +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • It has about 40 percent less fat and calories than the company's heaviest fare (with enough breading to hide the skinlessness).

    But What Would Colonel Sanders Think? 2008

  • Pride also meant the shuddering withdrawal of oneself, because of a rawness ... a skinlessness ... on which the touch of any rough hand could cause agony; even the chance contacts of everyday prove

    Ultima Thule 2003

  • The click was so loud, it made my household gnome, Petey, jump out of his skinlessness.

    The Absurd Report 2008

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