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1. A wild or unrefined state
   - crudity, primitiveness, primitivism, rudeness
    
2. An impolite manner that is vulgar and lacking tact or refinement
   "the whole town was famous for its crudeness"
   - crudity, gaucheness
    
3. An unpolished unrefined quality
   "the crudeness of frontier dwellings depressed her"
   - roughness

Derived forms: crudenesses

See also: crude

Type of: impoliteness, inelegance, natural state, state of nature, wild