coarsenessn.
/ˈkɔːsnɪs/ The quality of being coarse; roughness, rudeness, want of fineness or refinement, etc.: see the adjective.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > other specific kinds of texture > [noun] > coarse texture
boistousness1398
boistness1495
coarseness1541
coarse-grainedness1876
grossnessa1898
the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > [noun] > coarseness
coarseness1541
grossness1563
swinishness1591
piggishness1796
piggery1854
blowsiness1866
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [noun] > unmannerliness > unrefined manners or behaviour
villainyc1340
churlhood1382
rudenessc1405
boistousness1526
uplandishness1530
rusticity1531
coarseness1541
loutishnessa1556
grossness1563
boorishness1570
rusticality1572
clownishness1576
bouerie1577
roughness1581
clownery1589
swinishness1591
peasantryc1592
inurbanity1598
community1600
rusticalnessa1603
clownagea1637
wildness1639
vulgarness1642
unpolishedness1652
brutism1687
mismanners1697
unpoliteness1700
brutality1709
mechanicism1710
indelicacy1712
untameness1727
vulgarism1749
vulgaritya1774
shag1785
piggishness1796
cubbishness1828
sylvanity1832
rusticness1838
plebeianness1840
swainishness1854
baboonery1857
yahooism1862
slanginess1865
bucolicism1879
vulgarianism1920
outbackery1961
yobbishness1969
ockerism1974
blokeishness1989
1541 Act 33 Hen. VIII c. 18 The coursnes of the woll.
1586 W. Webbe Disc. Eng. Poetrie sig. E.iiii The coursenes of our speeche.
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Warw. 124 Writing truly and orderly, onely guilty of Coursness of style.
1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 118 There appears..a coarseness and vulgarity in all the proceedings of the assembly. View more context for this quotation
1823 C. Lamb On Some of Old Actors (new ed.) in Elia 303 Her voice had latterly acquired a coarseness.
1840 D. Lardner Treat. Geom. 143 The coarseness or fineness of the canvass.
1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul I. v. xviii. 331 A Rome which had lost its simplicity and retained its coarseness.
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