coarseness

Noun

Meaning

The quality or state of being coarse; roughness; inelegance; vulgarity; grossness; as, coarseness of food, texture, manners, or language.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

commonness vulgarity saltiness grossness raunch vulgarism granularity graininess smut cruelty impurity obscenity profanity roughness harshness
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Antonyms

grace polish good culture honor consideration
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Hypernyms

style roughness inelegance raggedness expressive style

Hyponyms

sandiness

Anagrams

Scorsesean

Examples

I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usually goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness and narrowness of mind. Thucydides

Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something. E. M. Forster

America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people. Lord Byron

Lyndsay, with all his ancient coarseness...maintained for two centuries, even among the precise, his position as the popular poet of Scotland. David Lyndsay

What an antithetical mind -- tenderness, roughness -- delicacy, coarseness -- sentiment, sensuality -- soaring and groveling, dirt and deity -- all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay. Lord Byron

the saltiness of their language was inappropriate Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

coarsen coarsened coarsener coarsening coarsish coarsy