An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
COARSENESS
coarseness, commonness, grossness, vulgarity, vulgarism, raunch
(noun) the quality of lacking taste and refinement
coarseness, nubbiness, tweediness
(noun) looseness or roughness in texture (as of cloth)
coarseness, graininess, granularity
(noun) the quality of being composed of relatively large particles
saltiness, coarseness
(noun) language or humor that is down-to-earth; “the saltiness of their language was inappropriate”; “self-parody and saltiness riddled their core genre”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
coarseness (usually uncountable, plural coarsenesses)
The property of being coarse, roughness or primitiveness, unrefined or unpolished.
The quality or state of being coarse
Anagrams
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Source: Wiktionary
Coarse"ness, n.
Definition: The quality or state of being coarse; roughness; melegance; vulgarity; grossness; as, coarseness of food, texture, manners, or language. "The coarseness of the sackcloth." Dr. H. More. Pardon the coarseness of the illustration. L'Estrange. A coarseness and vulgarity in all the proceedings. Burke.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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(adjective) (of undissolved particles in a fluid) supported or kept from sinking or falling by buoyancy and without apparent attachment; “suspended matter such as silt or mud...”; “dust particles suspended in the air”; “droplets in suspension in a gas”
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