rawness
rawness noun: the property of being raw.
Noun
rawness (countable and uncountable, plural rawnesses)
- The property of being raw.
- The day broke gray and dull. The clouds hung heavily, and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow.1915, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter I, in Of Human Bondage, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC, page 1
- Now, in spite of all sorts of defects, all sorts of woollinesses and rawnesses, the American novel is superior to either the English or the French; it is indeed superior, I think, to any European novel […]1939, Forum, volume 102, page 226
rawness meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Kannada
rawness in Tamil
- அசுடகம், பச்சை, பசுமை
rawness in Urdu
- rawness
- آم ām
rawness in Kannada
- ಹಸುಕು, ಹಸಕು, ಹಸಿಯಾಗಿರುವಿಕೆ, ಹದಗೊಳಿಸದಿರುವಿಕೆ, ಸಹಜಸ್ಥಿತಿಯಲ್ಲಿರುವಿಕೆ, ಸಂಸ್ಕರಿಸದಿರುವಿಕೆ
Forms of rawness
| plural | rawnesses |
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Origin of rawness
From raw + -ness.
Questions about rawness
- What does rawness mean?
- Rawness means the property of being raw.
- What is rawness in Tamil?
- Rawness in Tamil is அசுடகம், பச்சை, பசுமை. See Rawness meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is rawness?
- Rawness is a noun.
- What is the plural of rawness?
- The plural of rawness is rawnesses.
Words near rawness in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: rawness (page history and authors); rawness (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); آم (Urdu) (page history and authors); rawness (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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