Coarseness

Quick meaning: Coarseness is a noun meaning The property of being coarse, roughness or primitiveness, unrefined or unpolished.

Meaning

The property of being coarse, roughness or primitiveness, unrefined or unpolished.

More Meanings

1. The quality or state of being coarse
2. (countable) Something that is coarse.

Example Sentences

coarseness of food, texture, manners, or language

All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. […] Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connection—[…]—such talk had been distressingly out of place.

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.

In fact, Angela Lansbury’s bawdy, chattering, equivocal Granny—a super opportunity glintily grasped—is as likely to entertain young Rosaleen with such coarsenesses as ‘. . . and she found another husband not too shy to piss into a pot’ as to scare her with warnings about men whose eyebrows meet: […]

Word Forms

• coarsenesses

Synonyms for coarseness

Depending on context, synonyms include vulgarity, commonness, granularity, grossness, graininess, tweediness.

Related Words

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