grossness

Questions about grossness

What does grossness mean?

grossness means "the quality of lacking taste and refinement".

How many syllables are in grossness?

grossness has 2 syllables: gros-sness. The stress falls on "gros".

What is another word for grossness?

Close synonyms include coarseness, commonness, vulgarity, vulgarism, raunch. 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 grossness a common word?

grossness 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.