Coarse'ness, n.

n. The quality or state of being coarse; thickness; roughness; inelegance; meanness; grossness; as, coarseness of food; coarseness of manners or language.

By the coarseness of the sackcloth they ranked themselves among the meanest and lowest condition of men. More.

Pardon the coarseness of the illustration. L'Estrange.

Already there appears . . . a coarseness and vulgarity in all the proceedings of the assembly. Burke.