gaucheness

1. 1.

   an impolite manner that is vulgar and lacking tact or refinement

   “the whole town was famous for its crudeness”

   Synonymscrudenesscrudity

   Broaderimpoliteness

Other forms of gaucheness

plural

gauchenesses·

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 gaucheness

What does gaucheness mean?

gaucheness means "an impolite manner that is vulgar and lacking tact or refinement".

How many syllables are in gaucheness?

gaucheness has 3 syllables: gau-che-ness. The stress falls on "gau".

What is another word for gaucheness?

Close synonyms include crudeness, 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 gaucheness a common word?

gaucheness 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.