Noun: crudeness krood-nus
- A wild or unrefined state
"The crudeness of the remote village fascinated the anthropologists";
- crudity, primitiveness, primitivism, rudeness
- An impolite manner that is vulgar and lacking tact or refinement
"the whole town was famous for its crudeness";
- crudity, gaucheness
- An unpolished unrefined quality
"the crudeness of frontier dwellings depressed her";
- roughness
Type of: impoliteness, inelegance, natural state, state of nature, wild