different between crass vs grossness

English

Etymology

From Middle English cras, craas, from Old French cras, from Latin crassus (“dense, thick, gross, fat, heavy”). Doublet of grease.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /k?æs/
• Rhymes: -æs

Adjective

crass (comparative crasser, superlative crassest)

1. coarse; crude; unrefined or insensitive; lacking discrimination
   • 2002, Mike Tyson to the Media,

     You guys would rather be with someone else who’s equal to your status in life. Tiger Woods, or somebody. I comes across as crass, a Neanderthal, a babbling idiot sometimes. I like to show you that person. I like that person.

2. materialistic
3. dense
4. Lacking finesse; crude and obvious.

Antonyms

• (coarse; crude; not refined, insensitive): delicate, sensitive, refined

Derived terms

• crassly
• crassness

Translations

Anagrams

• csars, scars

English

Etymology

From gross +? -ness.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?????sn?s/

Noun

grossness (countable and uncountable, plural grossnesses)

1. Lack of refinement in character, behaviour etc.; coarseness.
   • August 25, 1759, Samuel Johnson, The Idler No. 71

     He […] began to descend to familiar questions, endeavouring to accommodate his discourse to the grossness of rustic understandings. The clowns soon found that he did not know wheat from rye, and began to despise him; one of the boys, by pretending to show him a bird's nest, decoyed him into a ditch; […]

2. (slang) The quality of being repulsive or disgusting.
3. (obsolete) Size.

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