coarseness
Coarseness is a quality of roughness or graininess. You can feel the sand's coarseness when you sit on a beach.
There are two kinds of coarseness, but they're both rough. When you talk about the coarseness of the soil in your garden or the corn meal you're making muffins with, you mean that the particles are large and granular. Another kind of coarseness involves speaking or acting in a gross or vulgar way — someone who swears a lot and makes dirty jokes is displaying coarseness. Both types of coarseness show a lack of refinement.
Definitions of coarseness
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the quality of being composed of relatively large particles
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synonyms:
graininess, granularity
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types:
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sandiness
a texture resembling that of sand
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raggedness, roughness
a texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven
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sandiness
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looseness or roughness in texture (as of cloth)
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synonyms:
nubbiness, tweediness
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raggedness, roughness
a texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven
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raggedness, roughness
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the quality of lacking taste and refinement
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synonyms:
commonness, grossness, raunch, vulgarism, vulgarity
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inelegance
the quality of lacking refinement and good taste
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inelegance
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language or humor that is down-to-earth
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synonyms:
saltiness
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expressive style, style
a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period
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expressive style, style
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