PRIMITIVENESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A wild or unrefined state

Synonyms:

crudeness; crudity; primitiveness; primitivism; rudeness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

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

natural state; state of nature; wild (a wild primitive state untouched by civilization)

Derivation:

primitive (used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies)

primitive (little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type)

primitive (belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness)