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messiness

n. The property of being messy.

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messiness
  1. n. a state of confusion and disorderliness; "the house was a mess"; "she smoothed the mussiness of the bed" [syn: mess, muss, mussiness]

  2. the trait of being untidy and messy [syn: untidiness] [ant: tidiness]

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However, such systems are very tricky to study for the occurrence of such things as bifurcations, and involve all the messiness of real-world experiments.

The melancholy roll-call of real-life suicides among the Abstract Expressionists again: Gorky by hanging in 1948, Pollock and then almost immediately Kitchen, by drunken driving and then pistol in 1956 -- and then Rothko with all possible messiness by knife in 1970.

There were tents and wagons with platforms, and an air of messiness as townsfolk and wagoneers hastened to set up the fairgrounds.