UNCOUTHNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does uncouthness mean? 

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

1. inelegance by virtue of being an uncouth boor

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNCOUTHNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Inelegance by virtue of being an uncouth boor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

boorishness; uncouthness

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

inelegance (the quality of lacking refinement and good taste)

Derivation:

uncouth (lacking refinement or cultivation or taste)

 Context examples 

I am sure you must have been struck by his awkward look and abrupt manner, and the uncouthness of a voice which I heard to be wholly unmodulated as I stood here.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The two young men were the only talkers, but they, standing by the fire, talked over the too common neglect of the qualification, the total inattention to it, in the ordinary school-system for boys, the consequently natural, yet in some instances almost unnatural, degree of ignorance and uncouthness of men, of sensible and well-informed men, when suddenly called to the necessity of reading aloud, which had fallen within their notice, giving instances of blunders, and failures with their secondary causes, the want of management of the voice, of proper modulation and emphasis, of foresight and judgment, all proceeding from the first cause: want of early attention and habit; and Fanny was listening again with great entertainment.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)