coarseness (n.)

  1. language or humor that is down-to-earth; the saltiness of their language was inappropriate; self-parody and saltiness riddled their core genre

    [ Syn: saltiness ]

  2. the quality of being composed of relatively large particles

    [ Syn: graininess , granularity ]

  3. looseness or roughness in texture (as of cloth)

    [ Syn: nubbiness , tweediness ]

  4. the quality of lacking taste and refinement

    [ Syn: commonness , grossness , vulgarity , vulgarism , raunch ]

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