ROUGHNESS

roughness

(noun) harsh or severe speech or behavior; “men associate the roughness of nonstandard working-class speech with masculinity”; “the roughness of her voice was a signal to keep quiet”

crudeness, roughness

(noun) an unpolished unrefined quality; “the crudeness of frontier dwellings depressed her”

roughness, raggedness

(noun) a texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven

harshness, roughness

(noun) the quality of being harsh or rough or grating to the senses

pitting, roughness, indentation

(noun) the formation of small pits in a surface as a consequence of corrosion

rowdiness, rowdyism, roughness, disorderliness

(noun) rowdy behavior

choppiness, roughness, rough water

(noun) used of the sea during inclement or stormy weather

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

roughness (countable and uncountable, plural roughnesses)

The property of being rough, coarseness.

(US) Roughage; coarse fodder.

(Scotland) Abundance, especially of food.

Source: Wiktionary

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Rough"ness, n.

Definition: The quality or state of being rough.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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