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PRIMITIVENESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A wild or unrefined state
Synonyms:
crudeness; crudity; primitiveness; primitivism; rudeness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("primitiveness" is a kind of...):
natural state; state of nature; wild (a wild primitive state untouched by civilization)
Derivation:
primitive (used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies)
primitive (little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type)
primitive (belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness)
