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roughness

English

  1. 🔊 harsh or severe speech or behavior
    “men associate the roughness of nonstandard working-class speech with masculinity”
  2. 🔊 a texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven
  3. 🔊 an unpolished unrefined quality
    “the crudeness of frontier dwellings depressed her”
  4. 🔊 the quality of being harsh or rough or grating to the senses
  5. 🔊 the formation of small pits in a surface as a consequence of corrosion
  6. 🔊 used of the sea during inclement or stormy weather
  7. 🔊 rowdy behavior

Spanish

  1. 🔊 anfractuosidad roughness
  2. 🔊 rugosidad roughness
  3. 🔊 aspereza roughness, harshness, coarseness
  4. 🔊 fragosidad roughness, unevenness (of the road)

Similar words

crudeness raggedness harshness pitting indentation rowdiness rowdyism disorderliness choppiness rough water cat gothicism abruptness acerbity acidity acidulousness acridity acrimony acuteness aerospace aerosphere aggressiveness air hole air pocket