Dictionary

rawness en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

Etymology tree English raw Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English rawness From raw + -ness.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The property of being raw.
   • The day broke gray and dull. The clouds hung heavily, and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow. 1915, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter I, in Of Human Bondage, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC, page 1:
   • Now, in spite of all sorts of defects, all sorts of woollinesses and rawnesses, the American novel is superior to either the English or the French; it is indeed superior, I think, to any European novel […] 1939, Forum, volume 102, page 226:

Forms

Translations (4)

txb mamauñe (property of being raw) · pt crueza (property of being raw) · grc ὠμότης (property of being raw) · ca cruesa (property of being raw)