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Definition of Coarseness

1. Noun. Language or humor that is down-to-earth. "Self-parody and saltiness riddled their core genre"

2. Noun. The quality of being composed of relatively large particles.

3. Noun. Looseness or roughness in texture (as of cloth).

4. Noun. The quality of lacking taste and refinement.

Definition of Coarseness

1. n. The quality or state of being coarse; roughness; inelegance; vulgarity; grossness; as, coarseness of food, texture, manners, or language.

Definition of Coarseness

1. Noun. The property of being coarse, roughness or primitiveness, unrefined or unpolished. ¹

2. Noun. The quality or state of being coarse; as, coarseness of food, texture, manners, or language. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Coarseness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Coarseness

coarctations coarctectomy coarctotomy coarse coarse-grained coarse-graining coarse-grainings coarse breast architecture coarse dispersion coarse tremor

coarsely coarsen coarsened coarsener coarseners coarseness coarsenesses coarsening coarsens coarser

coarsest coarsish coarticulate coarticulated coarticulates coarticulating coarticulation coarticulations

Literary usage of Coarseness

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

1. English Lessons for English People by Edwin Abbott Abbott, John Robert Seeley (1901)
"This passage from Pope points out the danger of coarseness to which the ... Many passages in which force has degenerated into coarseness might also be ..."

2. George Buchanan, Humanist and Reformer: A Biography by Peter Hume Brown (1890)
"Each guest is in doubt whether the school has found its way to the palace, or the palace to the school," With reference to the coarseness of these satires ..."

3. The American Geologist: A Monthly Journal of Geology and Allied Sciences by Newton Horace Winchell (1905)
"For some time* and in a series of papers I have been interested in studying the grain of rocks, its variation in coarseness and the inferences that may be ..."

4. Anne Boleyn: A Chapter of English History. 1527-1536 by Paul Friedmann (1884)
"One more fault has been laid to Henry's charge, the coarseness which he always manifested in his ... Nor can it be excused by the general coarseness of ..."

5. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1886)
"A reviewer of ' Vanity Fair ' and ' Jane Eyre ' in the ' Quarterly ' for December 1848 had brought against her the charge of coarseness. ..."

6. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry, Division of Plant Industry, Queensland (1911)
"Secondary considerations of importance are habit of the plant, degree of coarseness, ability to retain the foliage, color of seed, and ease of shattering. ..."

7. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1901)
"real fabliaux, with all their coarseness ; others are scenes of comedy, with dialogues, and indications of characters ..."

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