CRUDENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does crudeness mean? 

• CRUDENESS (noun)
  The noun CRUDENESS has 3 senses:

1. a wild or unrefined state

2. an impolite manner that is vulgar and lacking tact or refinement

3. an unpolished unrefined quality

  Familiarity information: CRUDENESS used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRUDENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A wild or unrefined state

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

crudeness; crudity; primitiveness; primitivism; rudeness

Hypernyms ("crudeness" is a kind of...):

natural state; state of nature; wild (a wild primitive state untouched by civilization)

Derivation:

crude (belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An impolite manner that is vulgar and lacking tact or refinement

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

crudeness; crudity; gaucheness

Context example:

the whole town was famous for its crudeness

Hypernyms ("crudeness" is a kind of...):

impoliteness (a discourteous manner that ignores accepted social usage)

Derivation:

crude (conspicuously and tastelessly indecent)

Sense 3

Meaning:

An unpolished unrefined quality

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

crudeness; roughness

Context example:

the crudeness of frontier dwellings depressed her

Hypernyms ("crudeness" is a kind of...):

inelegance (the quality of lacking refinement and good taste)

Derivation:

crude (not refined or processed)

crude (not carefully or expertly made)

 Context examples 

It is allowed, that senates and great councils are often troubled with redundant, ebullient, and other peccant humours; with many diseases of the head, and more of the heart; with strong convulsions, with grievous contractions of the nerves and sinews in both hands, but especially the right; with spleen, flatus, vertigos, and deliriums; with scrofulous tumours, full of fetid purulent matter; with sour frothy ructations: with canine appetites, and crudeness of digestion, besides many others, needless to mention.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

He advised great statesmen to examine into the diet of all suspected persons; their times of eating; upon which side they lay in bed; with which hand they wipe their posteriors; take a strict view of their excrements, and, from the colour, the odour, the taste, the consistence, the crudeness or maturity of digestion, form a judgment of their thoughts and designs; because men are never so serious, thoughtful, and intent, as when they are at stool, which he found by frequent experiment; for, in such conjunctures, when he used, merely as a trial, to consider which was the best way of murdering the king, his ordure would have a tincture of green; but quite different, when he thought only of raising an insurrection, or burning the metropolis.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)