crudeness
noun 2
Collocations
2CRUDENESS + NOUN
reality
PREP.
without
Definitions
noun
1
The state of being crude
2
A crude act or characteristic.
We will never eliminate the crudenesses, the anti-intellectual rules, the mucker pose in higher education, until we give the universities back to faculty and students.
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Synonyms
noun — an unpolished unrefined quality
noun — an impolite manner that is vulgar and lacking tact or refine
- crudity
- gaucheness
noun — a wild or unrefined state
- crudity
- primitiveness
- primitivism
- rudeness
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
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We will never eliminate the crudenesses, the anti-intellectual rules, the mucker pose in higher education, until we give the universities back to faculty and students.
Wiktionary02
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
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