crudeness

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *krewh₂-der.

Proto-Italic [Term?]

Latin crūdusbor.

Middle English crude

English crude

Proto-Germanic *-in-

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti

Proto-Germanic *-ōną

Proto-Germanic *-inōną

Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-

Proto-Germanic *-atjaną

Proto-Indo-European *-tus

Proto-Germanic *-þuz

Proto-Germanic *-assuz

Proto-Germanic *-inassuz

Proto-West Germanic *-nassī

Old English -nes

Middle English -nesse

English -ness

English crudeness

From crude + -ness.

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Noun

crudeness (countable and uncountable, plural crudenesses)

1. (uncountable) The state of being crude
   • 1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume III: The Breakdown, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozkład (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 239:

     Gramsci was well aware of the crudeness of the forms in which Marxism was most commonly taught and preached.

2. (countable) A crude act or characteristic.
   • 1960 September 17, Henry Steele Commager, “Is Ivy Necessary?”, in Saturday Review, volume 43, page 86:

     We will never eliminate the crudenesses, the anti-intellectual rules, the mucker pose in higher education, until we give the universities back to faculty and students.

Synonyms

• crudity