COARSENESS

• (noun) the quality of lacking taste and refinement

  synonyms : commonness , grossness , raunch , vulgarism , vulgarity

• (noun) looseness or roughness in texture (as of cloth)

  synonyms : nubbiness , tweediness

• (noun) the quality of being composed of relatively large particles

  synonyms : graininess , granularity

• (noun) language or humor that is down-to-earth

  "the saltiness of their language was inappropriate", "self-parody and saltiness riddled their core genre"

  synonyms : saltiness

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