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coarsenesses

coarsenesses is the plural of coarseness.

Meaning of 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
  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

Questions about coarsenesses

What is coarsenesses the plural of?
Coarsenesses is the plural of coarseness.

Words near coarsenesses in the dictionary

  1. coarsen
  2. coarsened
  3. coarsener
  4. coarseners
  5. coarseness
  6. coarsenesses
  7. coarsening
  8. coarsenings
  9. coarsens
  10. coarser
  11. coarsest

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