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

n. The quality or state of being coarse; as, coarseness of food, texture, manners, or language.

n. The quality or state of being coarse; roughness; inelegance; vulgarity; grossness.

n. The state or quality of being coarse, in any sense.

n. the quality of lacking taste and refinement

n. looseness or roughness in texture (as of cloth)

n. the quality of being composed of relatively large particles

n. language or humor that is down-to-earth

"They were pedantic disciples who united with all the affectations of the Italian style a certain German coarseness, and the outcome was a bastard style inferior to the earlier schools -- childish, stiff, and crude in color, with no sense of light and shade."

inelegance    raggedness    roughness    style    expressive style   

roughness    inelegance    vulgarity    grossness   

vulgarity    grossness    meanness    dishonesty    brutality    barbarism    levity    lewdness    indecency    rudeness