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coarseness - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'coarseness' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Coarseness [ n.]
- The quality or state of being coarse; roughness; inelegance; vulgarity; grossness; as, coarseness of food, texture, manners, or language.

Meaning of 'coarseness' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . coarseness [ n]
Meaning (1):
- language or humor that is down-to-earth
Example in sentence:
  • self-parody and saltiness riddled their core genre;
  • the saltiness of their language was inappropriate