threadbarity

English

Etymology

From threadbare +‎ -ity.

Noun

threadbarity (uncountable)

  1. (rare) Threadbareness.
    • 1892, Walter Besant, The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 68:
      The unsuccessful artist, certainly, is sometimes a most picturesque creature. So is the model. The rags and duds and threadbarity too often enter largely into the picturesque.
    • 2015, Jean LeBlanc, Skating in Concord, page 79:
      […] and you will find yourself wondering if it could be true, that a town could join in such spontaneous holiday, […] despite tuberculosis, despite threadbarity, despite pennilessness […]
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