What does rawness mean?

Definitions for rawness
raw·ness

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. inexperience, rawnessnoun

    lack of experience and the knowledge and understanding derived from experience

    "procedural inexperience created difficulties"; "their poor behavior was due to the rawness of the troops"

  2. tenderness, soreness, rawnessnoun

    a pain that is felt (as when the area is touched)

    "the best results are generally obtained by inserting the needle into the point of maximum tenderness"; "after taking a cold, rawness of the larynx and trachea come on"

  3. incompleteness, rawnessnoun

    the state of being crude and incomplete and imperfect

    "the study was criticized for incompleteness of data but it stimulated further research"; "the rawness of his diary made it unpublishable"

  4. rawnessnoun

    a chilly dampness

    "the rawness of the midnight air"

Wiktionary

  1. rawnessnoun

    The property of being raw.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Rawnessnoun

    Etymology: from raw.

    Chalk helpeth concoction, so it be out of a deep well; for then it cureth the rawness of the water. Francis Bacon.

    Charles V. considering the rawness of his seamen, established a pilot major for their examination. George Hakewill.

    Why in that rawness left he wife and children,
    Without leave taking. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

ChatGPT

  1. rawness

    Rawness can be defined as the state of being in an unprocessed, unrefined, or untreated condition. It can also refer to the quality of being unsophisticated, inexperienced, or untreated. In a sensory context, rawness can denote intensity or bluntness, such as in feeling, emotion, or a physical sensation.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Rawnessnoun

    the quality or state of being raw

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of rawness in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of rawness in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of rawness in a Sentence

  1. George Brainard:

    I would say the overall message of the book is ... about how we're all more similar than we are different and about the connection and real honesty and rawness in these images, i feel like (the subjects) are really real, and it really comes across. I feel like they're very open with me in these pictures. I hope that (this) comes across to people.

  2. Wash Westmoreland:

    We knew she'd be able to master the difficult transitions and projecting the high intelligence and going through the emotional rawness of the end, we knew she was the one.

  3. Jonah Hill:

    There's tons of movies about youth that I felt depicted the rawness of growing up, but what I hope to add in this film at least was like also a real sense of hope even within ugliness.

  4. Sharon Holland:

    I can't imagine this announcement would be made in a public press conference if there was going to be something that was going to awaken and evoke the rawness of all of this once again, i don't think we would be hearing it spoken in that venue if that were the case.

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