rusticity
NounSynonyms:
gaucherie
Open English WordNet
Noun (1)
- the quality of being rustic or gaucheSynonyms: gaucherieType of awkwardness, clumsiness
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Rus·tic′ity noun
Origin: L. rusticitas: cf. F. rusticité.
The quality or state of being rustic; rustic manners; rudeness; simplicity; artlessness.
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.— Joseph Addison
The Saxons were refined from their rusticity.— Sir Walter Scott
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54