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Rawness   /rˈɔnɪs/   Listen
Rawness

noun
1.
A chilly dampness.
2.
The state of being crude and incomplete and imperfect.  Synonym: incompleteness.  "The rawness of his diary made it unpublishable"
3.
A pain that is felt (as when the area is touched).  Synonyms: soreness, tenderness.  "After taking a cold, rawness of the larynx and trachea come on"
4.
Lack of experience and the knowledge and understanding derived from experience.  Synonym: inexperience.  "Their poor behavior was due to the rawness of the troops"





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"Rawness" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the Grove, "with one Casildea de Vandalia, the rawest and best roasted lady the whole world could produce; but that rawness is not the only foot he limps on, for he has greater schemes rumbling in his bowels, as will be seen ...
— Don Quixote • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
... lived. Bryn Mawr was one of the newer landscape-gardened of our city suburbs, with curving roads, grass-plots, an art nouveau railroad station, shrubs and poplar sticks set out along the cement sidewalks, in an effort to disguise the rawness of the prairie pancake that the contractors had parcelled into lots. Isabelle found some difficulty in tracing her way along the ingeniously twisted avenues to the Johnston house. But finally she reached the two-story-and-attic ...
— Together • Robert Herrick (1868-1938)


Words linked to "Rawness" :   completeness, rebound tenderness, wholeness, soreness, integrity, pain, dampness, partialness, experience, chafing, ignorance, moistness, sketchiness, unity, hurting, raw, damp, chafe


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