hairiness

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)The characteristic of being hairy.

   “The fore-feet of the Yahoo differed from my hands in nothing else but the length of the nails, the coarseness and brownness of the palms, and the hairiness on the backs.”

   “Spanberg, the Russian navigator, landed, he says, in a great island from 43° to 50° lat., speaks of the uncommon hairiness of the natives, and of their wearing of silver in their ears.”

   “Small reddened but said stubbornly, “The cow likes my singing.” ¶ Cows are different from humans; perhaps the hairiness of their ears strains sound.”

2. (countable, uncountable)A characteristic of yarn: the proportion of fibre ends that stick out and are not embedded in the yarn body.

   “There was a reduction in hairiness of yarn after warping by about 17% in comparison to the hairiness of the wound yarn.”