grossnessn.

/ˈɡrəʊsnɪs/

Etymology: < gross adj. + -ness suffix.

The quality or condition of being gross.

†1. Bigness, bulkiness, size. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [noun] > largeness of volume or bulkiness

hugenessc1380

grossnessa1513

quantity1554

greatness1595

bulk1626

voluminousness1664

bulkiness1674

volume1794

quantum1815

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. ccxxx. f. li^v This Lewis..was surnamed Lewys the Greate for grossenesse of his Body.

1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida i. iii. 319 The purpose is perspicuous as substance, Whose grosenesse little characters sum vp.

1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 213 One found fault with the grossenesse of the nose: another with the length of the face.

1652 T. Urquhart Εκσκυβαλαυρον 151 Garne,..for the hieght and grosseness of his person,..was elected King of Bucharia.

2. Exaggerated or flagrant character, enormity.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > excessive amount or degree > [noun]

unhovea1300

passingc1350

distemperancec1374

excess1393

unmeasurea1400

surfeita1500

excessivenessa1513

ametry?1541

immoderation?1541

distemperature1572

exceedingnessa1586

grossness1585

unreasonableness1606

inordinacya1617

excrescency1638

immoderancy1646

fair share1650

overbalance1651

hyperbole1652

overheight1664

immoderacya1682

faggald1824

1585 Abp. E. Sandys Serm. xiii. 220 Our Sauiour..doth..lay open the grosnesse of their fault.

1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iii. ii. 80 Hiding the grosnes with faire ornament.

a1634 W. Austin Devotionis Augustinianæ Flamma (1635) 166 The grossenesse of this Lie every Child may discover.

1807 G. Chalmers Caledonia I. Pref. 5 Boece, and Buchanan..went beyond these useful chroniclers, in the grossness of their fables.

1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend II. iii. v. 40 The very grossness of this flattery.

a. Thickness, density, materiality, solidity. Also concrete or semi-concrete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > [noun]

fastness?a1200

spissitudec1440

solidiousness1495

grossness1527

massiveness1530

substantialness1530

substantiality1535

crassness1545

massiness1559

stiffness1577

spissness1598

solidness1600

density1603

solidity1603

crassitude1604

condensity1611

thightness1615

compactedness1644

compactness1646

body1647

crassities1659

denseness1669

tightnessa1728

corporeity1750

substantiability1816

1527 L. Andrewe tr. H. Brunschwig Vertuose Boke Distyllacyon sig. Aj The waters that there ben devyded from the grossenes of the herbes eche in his substance.

1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iii. i. 152 I will purge thy mortall grossenesse so, That thou shalt, like an ayery spirit, goe.

1627 M. Drayton Moone-calfe in Battaile Agincourt 168 A black cloud..Whose foggy grosnesse so oppos'd the light, As it would turne the noone-sted into night.

1644 K. Digby Two Treat. i. xxvii. 245 The element immediately next to earth in grossenesse, is water.

1645 J. Milton On Time in Poems 20 Then all this Earthy grosnes quit, Attir'd with Stars, we shall for ever sit.

1711 A. Pope Ess. Crit. 27 For envy'd Wit, like Sol Eclips'd, makes known Th' opposing Body's Grossness, not its own.

1807 J. Jebb Let. 4 Aug. in J. Jebb & A. Knox Thirty Years' Corr. (1834) I. 358 An expert diver can see under water, but it must be cloudily, on account of the grossness of the medium.

figurative.1766 S. Johnson Let. 13 Aug. (1992) I. 271 This speculation may perhaps be thought more subtle than the grossness of real life will easily permit.1842 Ld. Tennyson Locksley Hall in Poems (new ed.) II. 97 The grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down.

†b. Thickness as a third dimension. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > thickness > [noun]

thicknessa900

grossness1570

third dimension1840

1570 H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. i. f. 3 A plaine figure, that is a figure without grossenes or thicknes.

1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 167 That body being so subtile.., was voyde of all grossenesse or thicknesse.

c. Magnitude, with the implication of materiality.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > [noun]

bodiness1398

corporality1398

corporalness1398

corpulentness1398

materiality1570

bodiliness1587

materialness1587

corpulency1594

corpulencea1625

corporature1647

crassities1659

corporeity1664

bodiship1674

physicalness1727

physicality1827

grossness1862

1862 F. Hall tr. N. N. Gore Rational Refut. Hindu Philos. Syst. 121 Grossness is essential in order to perception.

4. Coarseness, want of fineness or refinement:

a. of food, feeding, or material substances.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > [noun] > eating coarsely

sloffingc1440

grossness1681

the world > matter > constitution of matter > other specific kinds of texture > [noun] > coarse texture

boistousness1398

boistness1495

coarseness1541

coarse-grainedness1876

grossnessa1898

1681 J. Dryden Absalom & Achitophel 19 His Shrieval Board The Grossness of a City Feast abhor'd.

1751 Earl of Orrery Remarks Swift (1752) 175 The grossness of our food, and..our immoderate use of spirituous liquors.

a1898 J. Caird Fund. Ideas Christianity (1899) II. x. 51 The vital energy of the plant transmutes into flower and fruit the grossness and foulness of the soil from which it springs.

b. of habits, ideas, speech, etc.

ΘΚΠ

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

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > inelegance > [noun]

roughnessa1398

beggarliness1542

crabbedness1546

barbarousness1549

grossness1563

rusticity1565

barbarism1578

inconcinnity1616

ungracefulness1658

incuriosity1661

incomptness1669

uncouthness1672

unpoliteness1684

barbarity1706

inelegance1726

inelegancy1727

scabrousness1727

asperity1779

crudity1885

ineloquence1894

1563 2nd Tome Homelyes Places Holy Script. i. 160 Places that men are offended at for the homelynesse & grossenesse of speach.

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III iii. i. 46 Weigh it but with the grossenes of this age.

1667 (title) The most delectable History of Reynard the Fox..purged from all grossness in phrase and matter.

1755 W. Warburton Divine Legation Moses (ed. 4) II. iii. vi. 306 To bleach and purify from the grossness and pollution of their ideas.

1763 S. Johnson Let. 27 Oct. (1992) I. 247 I do not..think the grossness of a Ship very suitable to a Lady.

1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 113 That chastity of honour..under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness .

1815 J. Scott Visit to Paris ix. 162 Grossness of conduct is the natural and becoming barrier that stands between virtue and vice.

1860 R. W. Emerson Worship in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 182 With these grossnesses, we complacently compare our own taste and decorum.

1885 Manch. Examiner 4 May 5/1 The..desire to disguise the native grossness of their motives.

5. Want of instruction and enlightenment; dullness, stupidity.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupidity, dullness of intellect > [noun]

hardnessOE

stuntnessc1000

sotshipc1050

witlessnessa1100

sotheada1200

dullness1398

bluntness1483

slowness1495

grossnessa1530

stupidity?1541

assishness?1548

dastardness1552

lourderie1555

dastardliness1556

blockishness1561

doltishness1569

sottage1569

sheepishness1574

doltry1581

sottishness1589

doltage1593

dorbellism1593

grout-headry1600

opacity1611

duncery1615

dunstery1615

stupidness1619

hebetude1621

insulsity1623

unintelligence1634

obtuseness1648

jobbernowlism1652

dullery1653

non-intelligence1653

blockheadishness1656

crassness1664

blockheadedness1716

stolidness1727

blockheadism1753

numbskullity1779

nincompoophood1791

duncishness1805

numbskullism1806

foziness1821

noodledum1821

obtusity1823

soft-headedness1823

noodledom1827

duncehood1829

dunderheadedness1830

sumphishness1830

asininity1831

dunderheadism1836

stockishness1837

dullardness1840

fat-headedness1840

stupor1845

duncedom1847

misintelligence1848

nincompoopery1850

wooden-headedness1850

dumminess1852

jolterheadedness1852

ninnyship1852

donkeyism1855

dumbness1860

beef-wittedness1863

crassitude1865

donkeyhood1869

slow-wittedness1869

chuckle-headedness1880

leatherheadedness1880

pinheadedness1884

numbskulledness1885

donkeydom1889

thickheadedness1889

density1894

moronism1922

nitwittedness1931

nitwittery1931

noodleness1931

dopiness1942

squirrel-headedness1955

nincompoopism1957

dim-wittedness1960

clottishness1961

a1530 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfeccyon (1531) iii. f. CCxxviii^v Shall brynge with them theyr olde grosnes, heuynes & passibilite.

1562 Certayn Serm. preached in Lincs. in H. Latimer 27 Serm. ii. f. 144 What a pacient man our sauior Christ was, which could so wel beare w^t the grosenes of Iohns disciples.

1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. ii. 5 They..are..for grosnes of wit such, as they..scarcely seeme to hold the place of humane being.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §137 It were extreame Grossenesse to thinke..that the Sound in Strings is made..between the Hand and the String.

1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 350 This was his grosnesse. As for the other more refined..men, they knew well enough what difference there was.

1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. II. 59 Their intellectual torpor, their mental grossness, are melancholy to witness.

1857 J. Keble On Eucharistical Adoration 58 To bring men to that requires..extreme grossness of understanding.

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单词	grossness
释义	grossnessn. /ˈɡrəʊsnɪs/ Etymology: < gross adj. + -ness suffix. The quality or condition of being gross. †1. Bigness, bulkiness, size. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [noun] > largeness of volume or bulkiness hugenessc1380 grossnessa1513 quantity1554 greatness1595 bulk1626 voluminousness1664 bulkiness1674 volume1794 quantum1815 a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. ccxxx. f. li^v This Lewis..was surnamed Lewys the Greate for grossenesse of his Body. 1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida i. iii. 319 The purpose is perspicuous as substance, Whose grosenesse little characters sum vp. View more context for this quotation 1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 213 One found fault with the grossenesse of the nose: another with the length of the face. 1652 T. Urquhart Εκσκυβαλαυρον 151 Garne,..for the hieght and grosseness of his person,..was elected King of Bucharia. 2. Exaggerated or flagrant character, enormity. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > excessive amount or degree > [noun] unhovea1300 passingc1350 distemperancec1374 excess1393 unmeasurea1400 surfeita1500 excessivenessa1513 ametry?1541 immoderation?1541 distemperature1572 exceedingnessa1586 grossness1585 unreasonableness1606 inordinacya1617 excrescency1638 immoderancy1646 fair share1650 overbalance1651 hyperbole1652 overheight1664 immoderacya1682 faggald1824 1585 Abp. E. Sandys Serm. xiii. 220 Our Sauiour..doth..lay open the grosnesse of their fault. 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iii. ii. 80 Hiding the grosnes with faire ornament. View more context for this quotation a1634 W. Austin Devotionis Augustinianæ Flamma (1635) 166 The grossenesse of this Lie every Child may discover. 1807 G. Chalmers Caledonia I. Pref. 5 Boece, and Buchanan..went beyond these useful chroniclers, in the grossness of their fables. 1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend II. iii. v. 40 The very grossness of this flattery. 3. a. Thickness, density, materiality, solidity. Also concrete or semi-concrete. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > [noun] fastness?a1200 spissitudec1440 solidiousness1495 grossness1527 massiveness1530 substantialness1530 substantiality1535 crassness1545 massiness1559 stiffness1577 spissness1598 solidness1600 density1603 solidity1603 crassitude1604 condensity1611 thightness1615 compactedness1644 compactness1646 body1647 crassities1659 denseness1669 tightnessa1728 corporeity1750 substantiability1816 1527 L. Andrewe tr. H. Brunschwig Vertuose Boke Distyllacyon sig. Aj The waters that there ben devyded from the grossenes of the herbes eche in his substance. 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iii. i. 152 I will purge thy mortall grossenesse so, That thou shalt, like an ayery spirit, goe. View more context for this quotation 1627 M. Drayton Moone-calfe in Battaile Agincourt 168 A black cloud..Whose foggy grosnesse so oppos'd the light, As it would turne the noone-sted into night. 1644 K. Digby Two Treat. i. xxvii. 245 The element immediately next to earth in grossenesse, is water. 1645 J. Milton On Time in Poems 20 Then all this Earthy grosnes quit, Attir'd with Stars, we shall for ever sit. 1711 A. Pope Ess. Crit. 27 For envy'd Wit, like Sol Eclips'd, makes known Th' opposing Body's Grossness, not its own. 1807 J. Jebb Let. 4 Aug. in J. Jebb & A. Knox Thirty Years' Corr. (1834) I. 358 An expert diver can see under water, but it must be cloudily, on account of the grossness of the medium. figurative.1766 S. Johnson Let. 13 Aug. (1992) I. 271 This speculation may perhaps be thought more subtle than the grossness of real life will easily permit.1842 Ld. Tennyson Locksley Hall in Poems (new ed.) II. 97 The grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down. †b. Thickness as a third dimension. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > thickness > [noun] thicknessa900 grossness1570 third dimension1840 1570 H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. i. f. 3 A plaine figure, that is a figure without grossenes or thicknes. 1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 167 That body being so subtile.., was voyde of all grossenesse or thicknesse. c. Magnitude, with the implication of materiality. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > [noun] bodiness1398 corporality1398 corporalness1398 corpulentness1398 materiality1570 bodiliness1587 materialness1587 corpulency1594 corpulencea1625 corporature1647 crassities1659 corporeity1664 bodiship1674 physicalness1727 physicality1827 grossness1862 1862 F. Hall tr. N. N. Gore Rational Refut. Hindu Philos. Syst. 121 Grossness is essential in order to perception. 4. Coarseness, want of fineness or refinement: a. of food, feeding, or material substances. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > [noun] > eating coarsely sloffingc1440 grossness1681 the world > matter > constitution of matter > other specific kinds of texture > [noun] > coarse texture boistousness1398 boistness1495 coarseness1541 coarse-grainedness1876 grossnessa1898 1681 J. Dryden Absalom & Achitophel 19 His Shrieval Board The Grossness of a City Feast abhor'd. 1751 Earl of Orrery Remarks Swift (1752) 175 The grossness of our food, and..our immoderate use of spirituous liquors. a1898 J. Caird Fund. Ideas Christianity (1899) II. x. 51 The vital energy of the plant transmutes into flower and fruit the grossness and foulness of the soil from which it springs. b. of habits, ideas, speech, etc. ΘΚΠ 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 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > inelegance > [noun] roughnessa1398 beggarliness1542 crabbedness1546 barbarousness1549 grossness1563 rusticity1565 barbarism1578 inconcinnity1616 ungracefulness1658 incuriosity1661 incomptness1669 uncouthness1672 unpoliteness1684 barbarity1706 inelegance1726 inelegancy1727 scabrousness1727 asperity1779 crudity1885 ineloquence1894 1563 2nd Tome Homelyes Places Holy Script. i. 160 Places that men are offended at for the homelynesse & grossenesse of speach. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III iii. i. 46 Weigh it but with the grossenes of this age. View more context for this quotation 1667 (title) The most delectable History of Reynard the Fox..purged from all grossness in phrase and matter. 1755 W. Warburton Divine Legation Moses (ed. 4) II. iii. vi. 306 To bleach and purify from the grossness and pollution of their ideas. 1763 S. Johnson Let. 27 Oct. (1992) I. 247 I do not..think the grossness of a Ship very suitable to a Lady. 1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 113 That chastity of honour..under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness . View more context for this quotation 1815 J. Scott Visit to Paris ix. 162 Grossness of conduct is the natural and becoming barrier that stands between virtue and vice. 1860 R. W. Emerson Worship in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 182 With these grossnesses, we complacently compare our own taste and decorum. 1885 Manch. Examiner 4 May 5/1 The..desire to disguise the native grossness of their motives. 5. Want of instruction and enlightenment; dullness, stupidity. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupidity, dullness of intellect > [noun] hardnessOE stuntnessc1000 sotshipc1050 witlessnessa1100 sotheada1200 dullness1398 bluntness1483 slowness1495 grossnessa1530 stupidity?1541 assishness?1548 dastardness1552 lourderie1555 dastardliness1556 blockishness1561 doltishness1569 sottage1569 sheepishness1574 doltry1581 sottishness1589 doltage1593 dorbellism1593 grout-headry1600 opacity1611 duncery1615 dunstery1615 stupidness1619 hebetude1621 insulsity1623 unintelligence1634 obtuseness1648 jobbernowlism1652 dullery1653 non-intelligence1653 blockheadishness1656 crassness1664 blockheadedness1716 stolidness1727 blockheadism1753 numbskullity1779 nincompoophood1791 duncishness1805 numbskullism1806 foziness1821 noodledum1821 obtusity1823 soft-headedness1823 noodledom1827 duncehood1829 dunderheadedness1830 sumphishness1830 asininity1831 dunderheadism1836 stockishness1837 dullardness1840 fat-headedness1840 stupor1845 duncedom1847 misintelligence1848 nincompoopery1850 wooden-headedness1850 dumminess1852 jolterheadedness1852 ninnyship1852 donkeyism1855 dumbness1860 beef-wittedness1863 crassitude1865 donkeyhood1869 slow-wittedness1869 chuckle-headedness1880 leatherheadedness1880 pinheadedness1884 numbskulledness1885 donkeydom1889 thickheadedness1889 density1894 moronism1922 nitwittedness1931 nitwittery1931 noodleness1931 dopiness1942 squirrel-headedness1955 nincompoopism1957 dim-wittedness1960 clottishness1961 a1530 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfeccyon (1531) iii. f. CCxxviii^v Shall brynge with them theyr olde grosnes, heuynes & passibilite. 1562 Certayn Serm. preached in Lincs. in H. Latimer 27 Serm. ii. f. 144 What a pacient man our sauior Christ was, which could so wel beare w^t the grosenes of Iohns disciples. 1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. ii. 5 They..are..for grosnes of wit such, as they..scarcely seeme to hold the place of humane being. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §137 It were extreame Grossenesse to thinke..that the Sound in Strings is made..between the Hand and the String. 1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 350 This was his grosnesse. As for the other more refined..men, they knew well enough what difference there was. 1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. II. 59 Their intellectual torpor, their mental grossness, are melancholy to witness. 1857 J. Keble On Eucharistical Adoration 58 To bring men to that requires..extreme grossness of understanding. 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