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Denseness

noun

The quality of being mentally slow and limited. Synonyms: dumbness, slow-wittedness.

The spatial property of being crowded together. Synonyms: compactness, concentration, density, tightness.

The amount per unit size. Synonym: density.

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"Denseness" Quotes from Famous Books

... through the thicket in the interval between our main line and the skirmishers, and under a heavy fire, we came upon a lone stranger sitting quietly upon a log. At first he was thought an enemy, who in the denseness of the undergrowth had passed our lines on a tour of observation. He was closely questioned, and it turned out to be Rev. Boushell, a methodist minister belonging to one of McGowan's South Carolina regiments, who became lost from his ...

— History of Kershaw's Brigade • D. Augustus Dickert

... a part back there, just now. There was neither wit nor guess-work in that business; once I had seen Blensop's panic over the fancied loss of his pen, the rest was knowledge. I saw him and Ekstrom together last night—skulking in those windows, I watched them; and though in my denseness I didn't understand, I saw him write upon that pad, tear off and give the sheet to Ekstrom. And I knew Ekstrom had not succeeded in stealing back what he had sold to Colonel Stanistreet, knew he was guiltless in fact if not ...

— The False Faces • Vance, Louis Joseph

Words linked to "Denseness" : tenuity, dense, flux density, optical density, transmission density, stupidity, dumbness, flux, spacing, bits per inch, low density, spatial arrangement, bpi, rarity, distribution, photographic density, relative density, absorbance