threadbarity

English

Etymology

threadbare +‎ -ity

Noun

threadbarity (uncountable)

1. (rare) Threadbareness.
   • 1892, Sir Walter Besant, The Ivory Gate, 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 […]