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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the quality of being rustic or gauche;
[syn: rusticity, gaucherie]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Rusticity \Rus*tic"ity\, n. [L. rusticitas: cf. F. rusticit['e].] The quality or state of being rustic; rustic manners; rudeness; simplicity; artlessness. [1913 Webster] The sweetness and rusticity of a pastoral can not be so well expressed in any other tongue as in the Greek, when rightly mixed and qualified with the Doric dialect. --Addison. [1913 Webster] The Saxons were refined from their rusticity. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

rusticity n 1: the quality of being rustic or gauche [syn: rusticity, gaucherie] [ant: urbanity]