Coarseness

noun

noun ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The property of being coarse, roughness or primitiveness, unrefined or unpolished. uncountable, usually
  2. 2
    the quality of lacking taste and refinement wordnet
  3. 3
    The quality or state of being coarse uncountable, usually

    "coarseness of food, texture, manners, or language"

  4. 4
    looseness or roughness in texture (as of cloth) wordnet
  5. 5
    Something that is coarse. countable, usually

    "This sketch is rather coarse, but probably it is as little exaggerated as could be expected from Walpole. The society which it illustrates abounded with such coarsenesses. Princesses were not expected to exhibit much propriety—nor Duchesses to be overburthened with delicacy."

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  1. 6
    the quality of being composed of relatively large particles wordnet
  2. 7
    language or humor that is down-to-earth wordnet

Synonyms

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roughnessrudenessvulgarityadamanimalismanimality

Example

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"coarseness of food, texture, manners, or language"

Etymology

From coarse + -ness.

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