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COARSENESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of lacking taste and refinement
Synonyms:
coarseness; commonness; grossness; raunch; vulgarism; vulgarity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("coarseness" is a kind of...):
inelegance (the quality of lacking refinement and good taste)
Derivation:
coarse (lacking refinement or cultivation or taste)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Looseness or roughness in texture (as of cloth)
Synonyms:
coarseness; nubbiness; tweediness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("coarseness" is a kind of...):
raggedness; roughness (a texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven)
Derivation:
coarse (of textures that are rough to the touch or substances consisting of relatively large particles)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The quality of being composed of relatively large particles
Synonyms:
coarseness; graininess; granularity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("coarseness" is a kind of...):
raggedness; roughness (a texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "coarseness"):
sandiness (a texture resembling that of sand)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Language or humor that is down-to-earth
Example:
self-parody and saltiness riddled their core genre
Synonyms:
coarseness; saltiness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("coarseness" is a kind of...):
expressive style; style (a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period)
