Synonyms for coarseness
coarse·ness

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1. coarseness

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

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

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1. saltiness, coarsenessnoun

   language or humor that is down-to-earth

   "the saltiness of their language was inappropriate"; "self-parody and saltiness riddled their core genre"

   Synonyms:
   salt, granularity, vulgarity, salinity, saltiness, tweediness, grossness, graininess, nubbiness, commonness, vulgarism, raunch

2. coarseness, graininess, granularitynoun

   the quality of being composed of relatively large particles

   Synonyms:
   grossness, vulgarity, tweediness, nubbiness, granularity, saltiness, graininess, commonness, vulgarism, raunch

3. coarseness, nubbiness, tweedinessnoun

   looseness or roughness in texture (as of cloth)

   Synonyms:
   grossness, vulgarity, tweediness, nubbiness, granularity, saltiness, graininess, commonness, vulgarism, raunch

4. 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, grossness, nubbiness, vulgarism, expectedness

Matched Categories

1. • Expressive Style
   • Roughness

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1. Anthony Scaramucci:

   We need more civility and less civil war; more discourse and less coarseness.

2. Dennis Aabo Sørensen:

   When the scientists stimulate my nerves I could feel the vibration and the sense of touch in my phantom index finger, the touching sensations is quite close to when you feel it with your normal finger; you can feel the coarseness of the plates, and the different gaps and ribs.