Antonyms for grossnessgross·ness

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1. grossness

   Antonyms:
   civilization, cultivation, culture, elegance, politeness, refinement

   Synonyms:
   barbarism, boorishness, brutality, clownishness, coarseness, rudeness, rusticity, savagery, vulgarity

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1. coarseness, commonness, grossness, vulgarity, vulgarism, raunchnoun

   the quality of lacking taste and refinement

   Synonyms:
   obscenity, vulgarity, raunch, commonplaceness, tweediness, commonness, commonality, granularity, saltiness, filth, everydayness, graininess, dirty word, smut, coarseness, nubbiness, vulgarism, expectedness

How to use grossness in a sentence?

1. Theophrastus:

   Grossness is not difficult to define: it is obtrusive and objectionable pleasantry.

2. Jason Peck:

   We have a lot of grossness in there.

3. William Ellery Channing:

   No man receives the full culture of a man in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished; and there is no condition of life from which it should be excluded. Of all luxuries this is the cheapest, and the most at hand, and most important to those conditions where coarse labor tends to give grossness to the mind.

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