RUSTICITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rusticity mean? 

• RUSTICITY (noun)
  The noun RUSTICITY has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being rustic or gauche

  Familiarity information: RUSTICITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RUSTICITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being rustic or gauche

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

gaucherie; rusticity

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

awkwardness; clumsiness; gracelessness; stiffness (the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment))

Antonym:

urbanity (the quality or character of life in a city or town)

Derivation:

rustic (awkwardly simple and provincial)

rustic (characteristic of the fields or country)

rustic (characteristic of rural life)

 Context examples 

Miss Crawford found a sister without preciseness or rusticity, a sister's husband who looked the gentleman, and a house commodious and well fitted up; and Mrs. Grant received in those whom she hoped to love better than ever a young man and woman of very prepossessing appearance.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)