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Noun: crudeness  krood-nus
  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

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