coarseness

Noun

coarseness (usually uncountable, plural coarsenesses)

1. (usually) The property of being coarse, roughness or primitiveness, unrefined or unpolished.
2. (usually) The quality or state of being coarse
   • coarseness of food, texture, manners, or language
   • All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. […] Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connection—[…]—such talk had been distressingly out of place.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXIV, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, pages 198–199
3. (countable, usually) Something that is coarse.
   • This sketch is rather coarse, but probably it is as little exaggerated as could be expected from Walpole. The society which it illustrates abounded with such coarsenesses. Princesses were not expected to exhibit much propriety—nor Duchesses to be overburthened with delicacy.1851, Eliot Warburton, “Walpole in Paris”, in Memoirs of Horace Walpole and His Contemporaries; […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 304
   • Hogarth does not refrain from introducing a sign in his engraving “Noon,” of 1738, showing the Baptist’s head on a charger, with the cynical inscription “Good Eating.” Whether such coarsenesses were actually perpetrated, even under the lax régime of Charles II in England, when frivolity reigned...1916 November, Fritz Endell, “Ecclesiastical Hospitality and Its Signs”, in Old Tavern Signs: An Excursion in the History of Hospitality, [Boston, Mass.]: Houghton Mifflin Company, →OCLC, pages 73–74