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Meaning of RUSTICITY

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [n]  the quality of being rustic or gauche
 
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 Synonyms: gaucherie
 
 See Also: awkwardness, clumsiness, gracelessness, stiffness

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Rus*tic"ity\, n. [L. rusticitas: cf. F.
rusticit['e].]
The quality or state of being rustic; rustic manners;
rudeness; simplicity; artlessness.
      The sweetness and rusticity of a pastoral can not be so
      well expressed in any other tongue as in the Greek,
      when rightly mixed and qualified with the Doric
      dialect.                                 --Addison.
      The Saxons were refined from their rusticity. --Sir W.
                                               Scott.
 

 

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