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Primitiveness

Primitiveness \Prim"i*tive*ness\, n. The quality or state of being primitive; conformity to primitive style or practice.

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primitiveness

n. The quality or state of being primitive.

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primitiveness

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.