Meanings
plural rawnesses
- countableuncountableThe 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 11 more example
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
Synonyms & antonyms
nounthe state of being crude and incomplete and imperfect
nounlack of experience and the knowledge and understanding derived from experience
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Ancient Greek ὠμότης
- ὠμότης (ōmótēs)property of being raw
Catalan cruesa
- cruesaproperty of being raw
Portuguese crueza
- cruezaproperty of being raw
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