[f. prec. + -NESS.] The quality or state of being spotted.
1611. Cotgr., Mouscheture, a spottednesse, or spotting.
1642. J. Eaton, Honey-c. Free Justif., 177. We see and feel nothing but fouleness and spottednesse.
1727. Bailey (vol. II.), Speckledness, Spottedness.
1881. C. A. Young, Sun, 145. The state of the sun as to spottedness.
1883. Science, II. 72/2. A maximum of solar spottedness seems to have passed.
