Noun
The quality or state of being raw.
Source: Webster's dictionaryShe [Comedy] it is who proposes the correcting of pretentiousness, of inflation, of dulness, and of the vestiges of rawness and grossness to be found among us. She is the ultimate civilizer, the polisher, a sweet cook. George Meredith
I get up very early in the morning. I enjoy the quietness, the stillness, the rawness in the winter and fall. It's a special time. Ted Kennedy
If you demand on the other hand, the raw material of poetry in all its rawness and that which is on the other hand genuine, you are interested in poetry. Marianne Moore
Although idea and form are ultimately paramount in my work, so too are chance, accident, and rawness. Martin Puryear
Good literature continually read for pleasure must, let us hope, do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions. A. E. Housman
Much travel is needed to ripen a man's rawness. English Proverb