Meaning of COARSENESS
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- [n] the quality of lacking taste and refinement
- [n] looseness or roughness in texture (as of cloth)
- [n] the quality of being composed of relatively large particles
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| | Synonyms: | | commonness, graininess, granularity, grossness, nubbiness, tweediness, vulgarism, vulgarity |
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| | See Also: | | inelegance, roughness, sandiness | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Coarse"ness\ (k[=o]rs"n[e^]s), n.
The quality or state of being coarse; roughness; inelegance;
vulgarity; grossness; as, coarseness of food, texture,
manners, or language. ``The coarseness of the sackcloth.''
--Dr. H. More.
Pardon the coarseness of the illustration.
--L'Estrange.
A coarseness and vulgarity in all the proceedings.
--Burke.
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| | Related Terms: | | Adam, animalism, animality, bad manners, bad taste, barbarism, barbarousness, baseness, beastliness, bestiality, bodily size, body, bombasticness, brutality, brutishness, bulk, cacology, cacophony, caddishness, callowness, carnal nature, carnality, carnal-mindedness, clumsiness, coarse-grainedness, commonness, corpulence, cracked voice, crassness, crudeness, crudity, cumbrousness, depth, discord, discourteousness, discourtesy, distance through, dryness, dysphemism, earthiness, fallen nature, fallen state, fatness, flesh, fleshliness, fourth-rateness, frankness, gaudiness, Gothicism, gracelessness, graininess, granularity, granulation, greenness, grittiness, gross behavior, grossness, gruffness, gutturalism, gutturality, gutturalness, hardness, harshness, heaviness, hoarseness, humbleness, huskiness, ill breeding, ill manners, ill-balanced sentences, immatureness, immaturity, impoliteness, impropriety, impurity, incivility, inconcinnity, inconsiderateness, incorrectness, indecorousness, inelegance, inelegancy, infelicity, inferiority, inferiorness, insensitivity, inurbanity, lack of finish, lack of polish, lapsed state, leadenness, loudness, loutishness, lowliness, mannerlessness, mass, materialism, meanness, meretriciousness, nondevelopment, nonspirituality, obscenity, offensiveness, oversimplicity, oversimplification, pompousness, ponderousness, poor diction, poorness, postlapsarian state, raciness, rankness, raspiness, raucity, rawness, reductionism, ribaldry, roughness, rudeness, saltiness, scrapiness, scratchiness, second-rateness, sesquipedalianism, sesquipedality, simplism, slipshod construction, spiciness, stertorousness, stiltedness, swinishness, tactlessness, tastelessness, the beast, the flesh, the offending Adam, the Old Adam, the rough, the third dimension, thickness, third-rateness, throatiness, turgidity, ugliness, uncourtliness, uncouthness, uncultivation, undevelopment, uneuphoniousness, unfinish, unfinishedness, unfledgedness, ungallantness, ungentlemanliness, ungracefulness, ungraciousness, unmannerliness, unpoliteness, unrefinement, unripeness, unseemliness, unsolicitousness, unspirituality, unwieldiness, vulgarism, vulgarity |
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