crowdedness

noun

crowd·​ed·​ness ˈkrau̇-dəd-nəs How to pronounce crowdedness (audio)
: the quality or state of being crowded

Examples of crowdedness in a Sentence

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The crowdedness of his house doesn’t reflect disorganization; the milk in his fridge is always turned so that the label faces outward. Elizabeth Barber, The New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2022 The app can already tell you how heavy traffic is and predict crowdedness for businesses. Chris Smith, BGR, 21 July 2021 Even Tauranac’s subway map doesn’t show us, for instance, the population density of Rattus norvegicus seen scurrying across the tracks with leftover slices of pizza or the crowdedness of each car. Meaghen Brown, Outside Online, 12 July 2021 That calculation relies on several assumptions, starting with estimates of the number and size distribution of space objects in the mid-1990s, extrapolating the increasing crowdedness of space since then, and guessing how reflective these objects would be on average. Joshua Sokol, Science | AAAS, 28 Mar. 2021 Their construction looks at a particular form of crowdedness, of how closely packed together people are at different spatial scales—in a building, in a neighborhood, in a city. Adam Rogers, Wired, 7 Oct. 2020

Word History

First Known Use

1823, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of crowdedness was in 1823

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“Crowdedness.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crowdedness. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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crowdedness

noun
crowd·​ed·​ness ˈkrau̇d-əd-nəs How to pronounce crowdedness (audio)
: the state of being crowded
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