Word Meanings - COARSENESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality or state of being coarse; roughness; melegance; 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.

Additional info about word: COARSENESS

The quality or state of being coarse; roughness; melegance; 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COARSENESS)

• Rusticity
• Rudeness
• clownishness
• boorishness
• coarseness
• simplicity
• artlessness

Related words: (words related to COARSENESS)

• RUSTICITY
  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
• CLOWNISHNESS
  The manners of a clown; coarseness or rudeness of behavior. That plainness which the alamode people call clownishness. Locke.
• SIMPLICITY
  1. The quality or state of being simple, unmixed, or uncompounded; as, the simplicity of metals or of earths. 2. The quality or state of being not complex, or of consisting of few parts; as, the simplicity of a machine. 3. Artlessness of mind;
• ARTLESSNESS
  The quality of being artless, or void of art or guile; simplicity; sincerity.
• COARSENESS
  The quality or state of being coarse; roughness; melegance; 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.
• UNSIMPLICITY
  Absence of simplicity; artfulness. C. Kingsley.
• CRUDENESS
  A crude, undigested, or unprepared state; rawness; unripeness; immatureness; unfitness for a destined use or purpose; as, the crudeness of iron ore; crudeness of theories or plans.
• JEFFERSONIAN SIMPLICITY
  The absence of pomp or display which Jefferson aimed at in his administration as President , eschewing display or ceremony tending to distinguish the President from the people, as in going to the capital on horseback and with no escort,