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roughishness en · NOUN

Etymology

From roughish + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Slight roughness.
    • The sensible qualities of argentina promise no great virtue of this kind; for to the taste it discovers only a slight roughishness, from whence it may be presumed to be entitled to a place only among the milder corroborants. 1778, William Lewis, The New Dispensatory, page 91: