crudeness (n.)

  1. a wild or unrefined state

    [ Syn: crudity , primitiveness , primitivism , rudeness ]

  2. an impolite manner that is vulgar and lacking tact or refinement; the whole town was famous for its crudeness

    [ Syn: crudity , gaucheness ]

  3. an unpolished unrefined quality; the crudeness of frontier dwellings depressed her

    [ Syn: roughness ]

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