fineness

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Fineness of fiber depends upon the number of times it is hackled, each time with a finer and finer instrument, which secures the different degrees of subdivision.

From Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades by Dooley, William H. (William Henry)

"Fineness" was a quality he was for ever belauding: a quality that he believed was only to be found in persons of complex character and unusually sensitive organisation.

From The Ffolliots of Redmarley by Harker, L. Allen (Lizzie Allen)

As to Fineness, it matters not, if but one in five be employed in it to an exquisite degree; for there is enough occasion for courser, for Sacking, Sails, Ticking, Common Table-Linnen, Sheets, &c.

From Proposals for Building, In Every County, A Working-Alms-House or Hospital as the Best Expedient to Perfect the Trade and Manufactory of Linnen Cloth by Haines, Richard

Fineness, firmness, cleanness and moistness are the chief essentials to be looked for in making the seed-bed.

From Clovers and How to Grow Them by Shaw, Thomas

The Government of the World is a great thing; but it is a very coarse one too, compared with the Fineness of Speculative Knowledge.

From A Character of King Charles the Second by Halifax, George Savile, Marquis of