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An unpolished unrefined quality
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roughness
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Roughness is studied by examining how textures are perceived and encoded by an individual's somatosensory system. In an experiment to measure and compare the roughness of different sounds, listeners are presented with different sounds and asked to rate ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The property of being rough, coarseness.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Roughness \Rough"ness\, n. The quality or state of being rough.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from rough (adj.) + -ness .
Usage examples of roughness.
At first their manners, gentle and pliable, contrast pleasantly with the roughness of the half-breds, Huwaytat and Maknawi, who have many of the demerits of the Fellah, without acquiring the merits of the Bedawi.
They held palm against palm with Milice and Mi, touched foreheads for a long moment until the newcomers had taken up the chant without break or roughness.
It is made artificially from high wines by the addition of oil of Cognac, to give it flavor, burnt sugar to give it color, and logwood or catechu, to impart astringency and roughness of taste.
Marcus had never looked more virile, the roughness of his edges unblunted by any social veneer.
Hamlet has his great confrontation with his mother, and treats her to a most unfilial roughness of tongue.
For five days we continued to drift to the northwest, in no danger of starvation, owing to our lading of provisions, but constrained to unintermitting watch and ward by the roughness of the weather.
Nothing can be more touching, than to behold a soft and tender female, who had been all weakness and dependence, and alive to every trivial roughness, while threading the prosperous paths of life, suddenly rising in mental force to be the comforter and support of her husband under misfortune, and abiding with unshrinking firmness the bitterest blasts of adversity.
From Boran, they received whatever he was in the mood to give them, usually roughness and insults, if nothing worse.
Fortune, who dearly loves such tricks, was having a little sport with them both, and Fortune may show a Chaucerian roughness when she cracks jokes.
He slid his hands downward slowly, reveling in her softness, conscious of their roughness, the rasp of his calluses on her un flawed nakedness.
But Lopez struck it up, not violently, so as to hurt her, but still with eager roughness.
And finally there is the matter of style, the requirement that the style employed -- the force, roughness, of refinement of the brushstrokes, etc.
Absently, Calum stroked a thumb over the signet he wore, feeling the sharp roughness of the family crest engraved in the cabochon ruby.
Constant contests with them increased that roughness which now makes him the terror of his subordinates and alienates all affection.
The problem of what Hamlet did with Polonius, said Brocky, had been neglected because so many other matters of greater immediate interest were raised by the famous scene (Act Three, scene four) where Hamlet has his great confrontation with his mother, and treats her to a most unfilial roughness of tongue.