Definitions for grossness
gross·ness

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. coarseness, commonness, grossness, vulgarity, vulgarism, raunchnoun

   the quality of lacking taste and refinement

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. grossnessnoun

   Size.

2. grossnessnoun

   Lack of refinement in character, behaviour etc.; coarseness.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Grossnessnoun

   Etymology: from gross.

   1. Coarseness; not subtilty; thickness; greatness of parts.

   The purpose is perspicuous even as substance,
   Whose grossness little characters sum up. William Shakespeare.

   And I will purge that mortal grossness so,
   That thou shalt like an airy spirit go. William Shakespeare.

   The cause of the epilepsy from the stomach is the grossness of the vapours which rise and enter into the cells of the brain. Francis Bacon, Natural History, №. 966.

   Then all this earthy grossness quit;
   Attir’d with stars we shall for ever sit,
   Triumphing over death. John Milton.

   So this being the first colour which vapours begin to reflect, it ought to be the colour of the finest and most transparent skies, in which vapours are not arrived to that grossness requisite to reflect other colours. Isaac Newton, Opt.

   For envy’d wit, like Sol eclips’d, was known
   Th’ opposing body’s grossness, not its own. Alexander Pope.

   2. Inelegant fatness; unwieldy corpulence.

   Wise men, that be over-fat and fleshy, go to sojourn abroad at the temperate diet of some sober man; and so, by little and little, eat away the grossness that is in them. Roger Ascham.

   3. Want of refinement; want of delicacy; intellectual coarseness.

   I was three or four times in the thought they were not fairies; and yet the guiltiness of my mind drove the grossness of the foppery into a received belief that they were fairies. William Shakespeare.

   Whatever beauties it may want, ’tis free at least from the grossness of those faults I mentioned. Dryden.

   What a grossness is there in the mind of that man, who thinks to reach a lady’s heart by wounding her ears! Clarissa.

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1. grossness

   Grossness is the state or quality of being extremely unpleasant, repulsive, or offensive, often in a crude or obscene manner. It can also refer to the state of being extremely large, excessive, or blatant.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Grossnessnoun

   the state or quality of being gross; thickness; corpulence; coarseness; shamefulness

How to pronounce grossness?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of grossness in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of grossness in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of grossness in a Sentence

1. Jason Peck:

   We have a lot of grossness in there.

2. Theophrastus:

   Grossness is not difficult to define: it is obtrusive and objectionable pleasantry.

3. William Ellery Channing:

   No man receives the full culture of a man in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished; and there is no condition of life from which it should be excluded. Of all luxuries this is the cheapest, and the most at hand, and most important to those conditions where coarse labor tends to give grossness to the mind.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=grossness
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Grossness
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=grossness
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grossness