spottinessn.

Brit.

/ˈspɒtɪnᵻs/, U.S.

/ˈspɑdinᵻs/

Forms: 1500s–1600s spottines, 1500s–1600s spottinesse, 1700s– spottiness.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: spotty adj., -ness suffix.

Etymology: < spotty adj. + -ness suffix.

rare between the early 17th and early 19th centuries.

†1. In figurative contexts: the condition of being stained with spots. Cf. spotty adj. 1b. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > [noun] > polluted or defiled condition

pollutionc1422

spottiness1574

defiledness1607

tainture1609

pollutednessa1617

1574 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. St. Paule to Galathians ii. f. 101^v He blisseth all our works, bycause that whatsoeuer spottinesse is in them, is clenzed away by the bloud of oure Lord Iesus Christ.

1574 Certaine Prayers S. Augustines Medit. sig. Iij^v O light whiche hatest all spottinesse, in asmuch as thou art most cleane and spottelesse.

a. Originally U.S. The condition of having blemishes, pustules, or pimples on the skin; (in later use) esp. the condition of having pimples or acne (sometimes with connotations of youth or callowness).

ΚΠ

1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 859 It purgeth the disease called..in Latine Vitiligo, or Impetigo, that is the white spottines of the skin, chaps, or rifts in the palmes of the hands, and soles of the feete.

1881 Nappanee (Indiana) News 30 June What is the cause of those pimples, those splotches, that spottiness on the nose of girlhood?

1908 J. G. Adami Princ. Pathol. I. 350 Other symptoms of a low toxic state sthowing themselves in lack of energy, muddy skin, and tendency to ‘spottiness’.

1945 Amer. Jrnl. Roentgenol. & Radium Therapy 54 178 This [sc. a hemangioma] was treated with radium, and the ‘spottiness’ that remained was given contact roentgen therapy.

1971 Roswell (New Mexico) Daily Record 15 July 9 (advt.) Dermalite, a remarkable ingredient that..breaks up unattractive pigment masses that cause spottiness.

2005 M. Lewycka Short Hist. Tractors in Ukranian vi. 73 The youth and spottiness of the priest confirmed all their suspicions about Catholicism.

b. gen. The condition or quality of being spotted or having spots.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > colour > variegation > spot of colour > [noun] > spotted condition

spottedness1611

spottiness1611

nevosity1656

maculation1826

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > [noun] > spotted condition

spottiness1611

speckedness1617

bespottednessa1882

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > sullying or staining of reputation > [noun] > condition of being stained or sullied

maculation?a1475

stainingc1595

spottedness1611

spottiness1611

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Papillotage, a spatling, or spottinesse.

1820 L. Hunt Indicator 21 June 292 Now we like to see a couple of legs..in white, kicking their way through a muddy street, and splashed unavoidably as they go, till their horrid glare is subdued into spottiness.

1863 Good Words Apr. 281/1 Nine times in a century the sun passes through all its states of purity and spottiness.

1913 Wild Life Jan. 13 The latter [side-stripes] break up into spottiness on the flanks, and, in rare instances, have disintegrated into an all-over spottiness even on the tail.

1970 M. W. Thompson tr. S. I. Rudenko Frozen Tombs Siberia 302 Its marked spottiness, the shape of the muzzle and the structure of the body indicate a fallow deer.

2004 Behaviour 141 480 In barn owls (Tyto alba) males choose females based on the spottiness of their plumage.

3. In painting, drawing, etc.: the quality of being patchy or uneven; a lack of coherence or unity.

ΚΠ

1789 W. Gilpin Observ. Picturesque Beauty Scotl. I. ii. 13 Too many of these gleams occasion what the artists call a spottiness in landscape.

1794 U. Price Ess. Picturesque viii. 148 Its flowers and blossoms..are apt to produce a glare and spottiness so destructive of that union and harmony which is the very essence of a picture either in nature or imitation.

1830 London Morning Post 4 May It has none of the spottiness with which there has been too much ground for reproaching the style of Mr. Constable of late.

1892 Photogr. Ann. II. 227 The evil of spottiness, patchyness, and confusion.

1922 Bull. Photogr. 10 May 587/2 Spottiness must be kept from asserting itself, not only in the lighting, but also in the development.

1971 D. R. Graves Life Drawing in Charcoal (1994) 35/2 Faults in drawing, like spottiness, holes in the figure, loss of form, edges turning out instead of going back, or any areas that come forward or retreate when they shouldn't.

2005 E. van de Wetering et al. Corpus Rembrandt Paintings IV. 524/2 The spottiness of the background..initially raised the suspicion that both the background and the final hat could have been changed by a later hand.

4. Originally U.S. The condition of being sporadic, intermittent, or uneven.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > [noun] > quality of being scrappy or patchy

patchinessa1828

sketchiness1846

scrappiness1867

spottiness1902

bittiness1950

1902 Washington Post 6 Mar. 11/1 The market gradually settled back into its recent condition of dullness and spottiness.

1927 Beatrice (Nebraska) Daily Sun 23 Apr. 3/1 Considerable irregularity developed in the early trading due to the spottiness of general business conditions.

1944 R. P. Fischer in Strategic Minerals Investig. 1942 (U.S. Dept. Interior) ii. 391 Because of the extreme spottiness of ore bodies and the large ratio of barren to mineralized ground (fig. 47), wildcat drilling..should be largely restricted to established alinements.

1989 Bull. School Oriental & Afr. Stud. 52 599/1 The spottiness of the historical record makes a strict chronological treatment impossible.

2015 D. L. Reed et al. in Parasite Diversity & Diversification x. 202 The spottiness of the fossil record and the complicated history of humans have led researchers to look at additional sources of information to study human origins.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	spottiness
释义	spottinessn. Brit. /ˈspɒtɪnᵻs/, U.S. /ˈspɑdinᵻs/ Forms: 1500s–1600s spottines, 1500s–1600s spottinesse, 1700s– spottiness. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: spotty adj., -ness suffix. Etymology: < spotty adj. + -ness suffix. rare between the early 17th and early 19th centuries. †1. In figurative contexts: the condition of being stained with spots. Cf. spotty adj. 1b. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > [noun] > polluted or defiled condition pollutionc1422 spottiness1574 defiledness1607 tainture1609 pollutednessa1617 1574 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. St. Paule to Galathians ii. f. 101^v He blisseth all our works, bycause that whatsoeuer spottinesse is in them, is clenzed away by the bloud of oure Lord Iesus Christ. 1574 Certaine Prayers S. Augustines Medit. sig. Iij^v O light whiche hatest all spottinesse, in asmuch as thou art most cleane and spottelesse. 2. a. Originally U.S. The condition of having blemishes, pustules, or pimples on the skin; (in later use) esp. the condition of having pimples or acne (sometimes with connotations of youth or callowness). ΚΠ 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 859 It purgeth the disease called..in Latine Vitiligo, or Impetigo, that is the white spottines of the skin, chaps, or rifts in the palmes of the hands, and soles of the feete. 1881 Nappanee (Indiana) News 30 June What is the cause of those pimples, those splotches, that spottiness on the nose of girlhood? 1908 J. G. Adami Princ. Pathol. I. 350 Other symptoms of a low toxic state sthowing themselves in lack of energy, muddy skin, and tendency to ‘spottiness’. 1945 Amer. Jrnl. Roentgenol. & Radium Therapy 54 178 This [sc. a hemangioma] was treated with radium, and the ‘spottiness’ that remained was given contact roentgen therapy. 1971 Roswell (New Mexico) Daily Record 15 July 9 (advt.) Dermalite, a remarkable ingredient that..breaks up unattractive pigment masses that cause spottiness. 2005 M. Lewycka Short Hist. Tractors in Ukranian vi. 73 The youth and spottiness of the priest confirmed all their suspicions about Catholicism. b. gen. The condition or quality of being spotted or having spots. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > variegation > spot of colour > [noun] > spotted condition spottedness1611 spottiness1611 nevosity1656 maculation1826 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > [noun] > spotted condition spottiness1611 speckedness1617 bespottednessa1882 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > sullying or staining of reputation > [noun] > condition of being stained or sullied maculation?a1475 stainingc1595 spottedness1611 spottiness1611 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Papillotage, a spatling, or spottinesse. 1820 L. Hunt Indicator 21 June 292 Now we like to see a couple of legs..in white, kicking their way through a muddy street, and splashed unavoidably as they go, till their horrid glare is subdued into spottiness. 1863 Good Words Apr. 281/1 Nine times in a century the sun passes through all its states of purity and spottiness. 1913 Wild Life Jan. 13 The latter [side-stripes] break up into spottiness on the flanks, and, in rare instances, have disintegrated into an all-over spottiness even on the tail. 1970 M. W. Thompson tr. S. I. Rudenko Frozen Tombs Siberia 302 Its marked spottiness, the shape of the muzzle and the structure of the body indicate a fallow deer. 2004 Behaviour 141 480 In barn owls (Tyto alba) males choose females based on the spottiness of their plumage. 3. In painting, drawing, etc.: the quality of being patchy or uneven; a lack of coherence or unity. ΚΠ 1789 W. Gilpin Observ. Picturesque Beauty Scotl. I. ii. 13 Too many of these gleams occasion what the artists call a spottiness in landscape. 1794 U. Price Ess. Picturesque viii. 148 Its flowers and blossoms..are apt to produce a glare and spottiness so destructive of that union and harmony which is the very essence of a picture either in nature or imitation. 1830 London Morning Post 4 May It has none of the spottiness with which there has been too much ground for reproaching the style of Mr. Constable of late. 1892 Photogr. Ann. II. 227 The evil of spottiness, patchyness, and confusion. 1922 Bull. Photogr. 10 May 587/2 Spottiness must be kept from asserting itself, not only in the lighting, but also in the development. 1971 D. R. Graves Life Drawing in Charcoal (1994) 35/2 Faults in drawing, like spottiness, holes in the figure, loss of form, edges turning out instead of going back, or any areas that come forward or retreate when they shouldn't. 2005 E. van de Wetering et al. Corpus Rembrandt Paintings IV. 524/2 The spottiness of the background..initially raised the suspicion that both the background and the final hat could have been changed by a later hand. 4. Originally U.S. The condition of being sporadic, intermittent, or uneven. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > [noun] > quality of being scrappy or patchy patchinessa1828 sketchiness1846 scrappiness1867 spottiness1902 bittiness1950 1902 Washington Post 6 Mar. 11/1 The market gradually settled back into its recent condition of dullness and spottiness. 1927 Beatrice (Nebraska) Daily Sun 23 Apr. 3/1 Considerable irregularity developed in the early trading due to the spottiness of general business conditions. 1944 R. P. Fischer in Strategic Minerals Investig. 1942 (U.S. Dept. Interior) ii. 391 Because of the extreme spottiness of ore bodies and the large ratio of barren to mineralized ground (fig. 47), wildcat drilling..should be largely restricted to established alinements. 1989 Bull. School Oriental & Afr. Stud. 52 599/1 The spottiness of the historical record makes a strict chronological treatment impossible. 2015 D. L. Reed et al. in Parasite Diversity & Diversification x. 202 The spottiness of the fossil record and the complicated history of humans have led researchers to look at additional sources of information to study human origins. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1574
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