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Primitiveness

noun
1.
A wild or unrefined state.  Synonyms: crudeness, crudity, primitivism, rudeness.





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"Primitiveness" Quotes from Famous Books



... thought forget its own. Least of all should a man for the sake of reading entirely withdraw his attention from the real world: as the impulse and temper which lead one to think for oneself proceed oftener from it than from reading; for it is the visible and real world in its primitiveness and strength that is the natural subject of the thinking mind, and is able more easily than anything else to rouse it. After these considerations it will not surprise us to find that the thinking man can easily be distinguished from the book-philosopher ...
— Essays of Schopenhauer • Arthur Schopenhauer


Words linked to "Primitiveness" :   natural state, rudeness, primitive, crudity, state of nature, primitivism, crudeness, wild


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