grossness — ozdic

Collocations

2

ADJ.

rustic

GROSSNESS + NOUN

understandings

Definitions

noun

1

Lack of refinement in character, behaviour etc.; coarseness.

Now that he was doing so much else she could never have the grossness to apply for it to Sir Claude.

He […] began to descend to familiar questions, endeavouring to accommodate his discourse to the grossness of rustic understandings. The clowns soon found that he did not know wheat from rye, and began to despise him; one of the boys, by pretending to show him a bird's nest, decoyed him into a ditch; […]

2

The quality of being repulsive or disgusting.

3

Size.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — the quality of lacking taste and refinement

coarseness
commonness
vulgarity
vulgarism
raunch

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

2

01

Now that he was doing so much else she could never have the grossness to apply for it to Sir Claude.

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02

He […] began to descend to familiar questions, endeavouring to accommodate his discourse to the grossness of rustic understandings. The clowns soon found that he did not know wheat from rye, and began

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, grossness is marked as slang, obsolete. Watch for register when choosing this word.