/ English Dictionary

COARSENESS

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of lacking taste and refinement

Synonyms:

coarseness; commonness; grossness; raunch; vulgarism; vulgarity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("coarseness" is a kind of...):

inelegance (the quality of lacking refinement and good taste)

Derivation:

coarse (lacking refinement or cultivation or taste)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Looseness or roughness in texture (as of cloth)

Synonyms:

coarseness; nubbiness; tweediness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("coarseness" is a kind of...):

raggedness; roughness (a texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven)

Derivation:

coarse (of textures that are rough to the touch or substances consisting of relatively large particles)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The quality of being composed of relatively large particles

Synonyms:

coarseness; graininess; granularity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("coarseness" is a kind of...):

raggedness; roughness (a texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "coarseness"):

sandiness (a texture resembling that of sand)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Language or humor that is down-to-earth

Example:

self-parody and saltiness riddled their core genre

Synonyms:

coarseness; saltiness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("coarseness" is a kind of...):

expressive style; style (a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period)

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