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Definition of Rawness
1. Noun. A chilly dampness. "The rawness of the midnight air"
2. Noun. The state of being crude and incomplete and imperfect. "The rawness of his diary made it unpublishable"
Generic synonyms: Integrity, Unity, Wholeness
Specialized synonyms: Partialness, Sketchiness
Antonyms: Completeness
Derivative terms: Incomplete, Incomplete, Raw
3. Noun. A pain that is felt (as when the area is touched). "After taking a cold, rawness of the larynx and trachea come on"
Specialized synonyms: Chafing, Rebound Tenderness, Chafe
Generic synonyms: Hurting, Pain
Derivative terms: Raw, Raw, Sore, Tender, Tender
4. Noun. Lack of experience and the knowledge and understanding derived from experience. "Their poor behavior was due to the rawness of the troops"
Generic synonyms: Ignorance
Antonyms: Experience
Derivative terms: Inexperient, Raw
Definition of Rawness
1. n. The quality or state of being raw.
Definition of Rawness
1. Noun. The property of being raw. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rawness
1. the state of being raw [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rawness
Literary usage of Rawness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Therapeutics of the Respiratory System, Cough and Coryza, Acute and Chronic by Marvin W. Van Denburg (1915)
"Painful; Raw Pains: rawness in chest; deep; violent cough from deep in the ...
rawness and tickling, with violent, difficult cough, in 5 or 6 paroxysms; ..."
2. Leaders in Homœopathic Therapeutics by Eugene Beauharnais Nash (1913)
"... here is sensation of rawness; sensitive to inhaled cold air. In the throat it
has the same sensation of rawness, ..."
3. The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica: A Record of the Positive Effects of by Timothy Field Allen (1879)
"—Feeling of rawness in the fauces, immediately,17.—Disagreeable sensations in
pharynx and oesophagus, extending to the stomach, with feeling of distress ..."
4. The Retrospect of Medicine by William Braithwaite (1869)
"rawness OF THE TONGUE AND PAINFUL DEGLUTITION IN ADVANCED PHTHISIS. By Dr.
DOUGLAS POWELL, Physician to the Hospital for Consumption, Brompton. ..."
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