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A wild or unrefined state
Answer for the clue "A wild or unrefined state ", 13 letters:
primitiveness
Word definitions for primitiveness in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The quality or state of being primitive.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Primitiveness \Prim"i*tive*ness\, n. The quality or state of being primitive; conformity to primitive style or practice.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a wild or unrefined state [syn: crudeness , crudity , primitivism , rudeness ]
Usage examples of primitiveness.
But even as, when at last the grown man is once more at grips with the world of men, his childishness falls from him, so, when I earnestly revert in imagination to my own world, my assumed primitiveness falls from me.
And in truth he looked it, a compound of strange and ancient races, what with his swarthy skin and the asymmetry and primitiveness of his features.
This ingenuousness is doubtless dependent upon several factors, such as the primitiveness of the world, the isolation and uniqueness of the cities, the disparateness of cultures and the tenuousness of communication.
The semisavage women of this town were alluring in their very primitiveness.