holeyness

English

Etymology

From holey +‎ -ness. Compare Middle English holynesse (“condition of having pores”).

Noun

holeyness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being holey.
    • 1969 October 26, Carol Hudson, “Praise for My Grandmother”, in Maine Sunday Telegram, volume 83, number 14, Portland, Me., page 4D, column 1:
      […] the final rags soaked well, then washed by hand to scrub and scrub until the fabric died of holeyness.
    • 1985 July 11, Ian Stewart, “The knots and strands of mathematical theory”, in The Guardian, page 15, column 2:
      But no topologist, however accomplished, can separate a doughnut from its hole. So holeyness is a topological property.
    • 2006, Ellen Sandbeck, Organic Housekeeping, Scribner, →ISBN, page 120:
      After my dishcloths attain holeyness, I give them a decent burial in my compost pile.
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