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Coarseness Common

Origin: Germanic Old English suffix

Coarseness has 5 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

language or humor that is down-to-earth

"the saltiness of their language was inappropriate"

"self-parody and saltiness riddled their core genre"

2

the quality of being composed of relatively large particles

3

looseness or roughness in texture (as of cloth)

4

the quality of lacking taste and refinement

5

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

Broader Terms (hypernyms)
expressive style roughness inelegance
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
sandiness
Rhyming Words
ess 1ess ress ness tess hess kess wess jess fess yess sess less bess cess mess guess 1aess gless cress
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