crudeness

Other forms of crudeness

plural

crudenesses·

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 crudeness

What does crudeness mean?

crudeness means "a wild or unrefined state". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in crudeness?

crudeness has 3 syllables: cru-de-ness. The stress falls on "cru".

What is another word for crudeness?

Close synonyms include crudity, primitiveness, primitivism, rudeness, crudity. 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 crudeness a common word?

crudeness 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.