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Noun: raggedness  ra-gid-nus
  1. A texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven
    "The raggedness of the cliff face made climbing dangerous";
    - roughness
     
  2. Shabbiness by virtue of being in rags
    "The raggedness of his clothes revealed his poverty"

Type of: manginess, seaminess, seediness, shabbiness, sleaziness, texture

Antonym: smoothness