rawness

Noun

Meaning

The quality or state of being raw.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

incompleteness soreness tenderness inexperience glaciation simplicity ignorance inflammation innocence blindness bitterness sharpness illiteracy rigor redness
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Antonyms

polish education experience idea hotness heat
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Hypernyms

pain unity integrity ignorance damp hurting

Hyponyms

chafe sketchiness chafing partialness rebound tenderness

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Examples

She [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

Close letter words and terms

Rawlsianism rawly Rawmarsh Rawnsley Raworth rawr