- 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
- an unpolished unrefined quality
- the crudeness of frontier dwellings depressed her
Synonym: crudeness
- a texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven
Synonym: raggedness
- the quality of being unpleasant (harsh or rough or grating) to the senses
Synonym: harshness
- the formation of small pits in a surface as a consequence of corrosion
Synonym: pittingindentation
- rowdy behavior
Synonym: rowdinessrowdyismdisorderliness
- used of the sea during inclement or stormy weather
Synonym: choppinessrough water