Meanings
plural rusticities
- countableuncountableThe quality of being rustic.
1 more example
The accommodation for passengers was designed on a rather lavish scale, as it was expected that extensive housing development would take place in the vicinity. These hopes were not realised, however, and, apart from the school buildings, the surroundings of the station have never lost their rusticity.
1953 February, H. A. Vallance, “To Brighton through the Shoreham Gap”, in Railway Magazine, page 81Synonyms: rusticness
- countableuncountableThat which makes something rustic.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe quality of being rustic.
More synonyms by meaning
nounthe quality of being rustic or gauche
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latinrusticitas
- Englishrusticity
From rustic + -ity, from Latin rusticitas.
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Full word history & related roots →Translations
Spanish rusticidad
- rusticidadthat which makes something rustic
Cite this entry
rusticity. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rusticity
“rusticity.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rusticity. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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