What does grossness mean?
Grossness means Lack of refinement in character, behaviour etc.; coarseness..
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/ˈɡɹəʊsnəs/ · noun
Lack of refinement in character, behaviour etc.; coarseness..
He […] began to descend to familiar questions, endeavouring to accommodate his discourse to the grossness of rustic understandings. The clowns soon found that he did not know wheat from rye, and began to despise him; one of the boys, by pretending to show him a bird's nest, decoyed him into a ditch; […]
Now that he was doing so much else she could never have the grossness to apply for it to Sir Claude.
Use grossness when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Grossness means Lack of refinement in character, behaviour etc.; coarseness..
Common synonyms include vulgarity, vulgarism, coarseness, commonness.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
He […] began to descend to familiar questions, endeavouring to accommodate his discourse to the grossness of rustic understandings. The clowns soon found that he did not know wheat from rye, and began to despise him; one of the boys, by pretending to show him a bird's nest, decoyed him into a ditch; […]
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