coarseness

Other forms of coarseness

plural

coarsenesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about coarseness

What does coarseness mean?

coarseness means "language or humor that is down-to-earth". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in coarseness?

coarseness has 4 syllables: co-ar-se-ness. The stress falls on "ar".

What is another word for coarseness?

Close synonyms include saltiness, graininess, granularity, nubbiness, tweediness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is coarseness a common word?

coarseness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.