What is "rawness"

Usage examples of "rawness".

Americans--the hunger for a better life--an end of rawness, newness, sourness, distressful and exacerbated misery, the taking from the great plantation of the earth and of America our rich inheritance of splendour, ease, and abundance--good food, and sensual love, and noble cookery--the warmth of radiant colour and of wine--pulse of the blood--an end of misery, bitterness, hunger and unrest upon the breast of everlasting plenty--the inheritance of exultancy and joy for ever, which some foul, corrosive poison in our lives--bitter enigma that it is!

The rawness of the day made it allowable for her to put on her musquash coat even to go as far as the gate and give Randall his orders.

There was something in the rawness of the mans honesty that made Askari smile.

She it is who proposes the correcting of pretentiousness, of inflation, of dulness, and of the vestiges of rawness and grossness to be found among us.

And even as she was nodding from within the abyss of her weariness, trying to let Donar see her understanding, her support, wanting to ease the rawness of his pain, even as the Others drew near again, triumphant, hideous, unwearied, she abruptly realized that Baerd wasn't with them on the bank.

Miss Didion would dismiss the comparison as footling when compared to the inescapability of her new-found emotional rawness.