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Looseness or roughness in texture (as of cloth)
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coarseness
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the quality of being composed of relatively large particles [syn: graininess , granularity ] looseness or roughness in texture (as of cloth) [syn: nubbiness , tweediness ] the quality of lacking taste and refinement [syn: commonness , grossness , vulgarity ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Coarseness \Coarse"ness\ (k[=o]rs"n[e^]s), n. The quality or state of being coarse; roughness; inelegance; vulgarity; grossness; as, coarseness of food, texture, manners, or language. ``The coarseness of the sackcloth.'' --Dr. H. More. Pardon ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The property of being coarse, roughness or primitiveness, unrefined or unpolished. 2 The quality or state of being coarse; as, coarseness of food, texture, manners, or language.
Usage examples of coarseness.
That coarseness of his, that violence, that blockheadedness, eventually must do him in.
He belched violently -- an affliction of age, this, its coarseness seeming to correspond to the general thickening induced by the years, a thickening of the tongue as well as the body, a slow congealment of the blood, that had turned Baal at fifty into a figure quite unlike his quick young self.