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Coarseness vs Roughness - What's the difference?

coarseness | roughness |

As nouns the difference between coarseness and roughness

is that coarseness is the property of being coarse, roughness or primitiveness, unrefined or unpolished while roughness is the property of being rough, coarseness.

coarseness

English

Noun

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  • The property of being coarse, roughness or primitiveness, unrefined or unpolished.
  • The quality or state of being coarse; as, coarseness of food, texture, manners, or language.
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    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion […] such talk had been distressingly out of place.}}

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    roughness

    English

    (wikipedia roughness)

    Noun

  • The property of being rough, coarseness.
    • The roughness of the road made me wonder if my car would fall apart.