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1. A texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven
   - raggedness
    
2. The quality of being harsh, rough or grating to the senses
   - harshness
    
3. An unpolished unrefined quality
   "the roughness of frontier dwellings depressed her";
   - crudeness
    
4. Used of the sea during inclement or stormy weather
   - choppiness, rough water
    
5. Rowdy behaviour
   - rowdiness, rowdyism, disorderliness, rambunctiousness, riotousness, raucousness
    
6. The formation of small pits in a surface as a consequence of corrosion
   - pitting, indentation
    
7. Harsh or severe speech or behaviour
   "men associate the roughness of nonstandard working-class speech with masculinity"; "the roughness of her voice was a signal to keep quiet"

Type of: corroding, corrosion, disorder, erosion, inelegance, intensification, storminess, texture, unpleasantness

Antonym: smoothness

Encyclopedia: Roughness