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Meaning of coarseness

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  coarseness
      n 1: language or humor that is down-to-earth; "the saltiness of
           their language was inappropriate"; "self-parody and
           saltiness riddled their core genre" [syn: {saltiness},
           {coarseness}]
      2: the quality of being composed of relatively large particles
         [syn: {coarseness}, {graininess}, {granularity}]
      3: looseness or roughness in texture (as of cloth) [syn:
         {coarseness}, {nubbiness}, {tweediness}]
      4: the quality of lacking taste and refinement [syn:
         {coarseness}, {commonness}, {grossness}, {vulgarity},
         {vulgarism}, {raunch}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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