Coarseness vs Vulgarity - What's the difference?
coarseness | vulgarity |
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= (uncountable) The quality of being vulgar.
(countable) An offensive or obscene act or expression.
As nouns the difference between coarseness and vulgarity
is that coarseness is the property of being coarse, roughness or primitiveness, unrefined or unpolished while vulgarity is (uncountable) the quality of being vulgar.coarseness
English
Noun
(-)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.}}
