crudeness

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English

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Etymology

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From crude +‎ -ness.

Noun

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crudeness (countable and uncountable, plural crudenesses)

  1. (uncountable) The state of being crude
  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.

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