Definition of Coarsenesses

1. coarseness [n] - See also: coarseness

Lexicographical Neighbors of Coarsenesses

coarctectomy
coarctotomy
coarse
coarse-grained
coarse-graining
coarse-grainings
coarse breast architecture
coarse dispersion
coarse tremor
coarsely
coarsen
coarsened
coarsener
coarseners
coarseness
coarsenesses (current term)
coarsening
coarsens
coarser
coarsest
coarsish
coarticulate
coarticulated
coarticulates
coarticulating
coarticulation
coarticulations

Literary usage of Coarsenesses

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science by George Woodyatt Hastings, Andrew Edgar, Charles Wager Ryalls, Edwin Pears (1880)
"There were coarsenesses indeed in the Aristophanic comedy; but it must be remembered that these plays were only represented by men and before men ; and they ..."

2. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal by William Chambers, Robert Chambers (1846)
"Admitting the Dutch painters to be what Horace Walpole has termed them, ' the drudging mimici of nature's most uncomely coarsenesses,' it must in turn be ..."

3. The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1889)
"It was a pleasant, friendly, sociable herd; pious, happy, merry, and full of unconscious coarsenesses and innocent indecencies. What they regarded as the ..."

4. The Contemporary Review (1891)
"... or rather invents, coarsenesses, and crudities, and terrible oddities, which I cannot see in the Greek. He pored on life and character, in many of his ..."

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