[f. SPOTTY a. + -NESS.] The character or state of being spotty.
1577. St. Aug. Manual, I vij. O light whiche hatest all spottinesse, in asmuch as thou art most cleane & spotlesse.
1611. Cotgr., Papillotage, a spatling, or spottinesse.
1820. L. Hunt, Indicator, No. 37 (1822), I. 292. How we like to see a couple of legs … splashed unavoidably … till their horrid glare is subdued into spottiness.
1863. Gd. Words, April, 281/1. Nine times in a century the sun passes through all its states of purity and spottiness.
1892. Photogr. Ann., II. 227. The evil of spottiness, patchyness, and confusion.
