What is another word for grossness?

Pronunciation: [ɡɹˈə͡ʊsnəs] (IPA)

Grossness refers to something that is uncouth, obscene, or repulsive. There are numerous synonyms for grossness, including nastiness, loathsomeness, offensiveness, filthiness, obscenity, repulsiveness, foulness, and unpleasantness. These words describe the quality of something that is considered undesirable, distasteful, or indecent. Sometimes grossness can be associated with a physical appearance or behavior that is particularly unsightly, while other times it can be tied to an unpleasant sensation or experience. Whatever the context, it is important to use the appropriate synonym in order to effectively communicate the unpleasantness of something.

Synonyms for Grossness:

What are the hypernyms for Grossness?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the hyponyms for Grossness?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.
  • hyponyms for grossness (as nouns)

What are the opposite words for grossness?

Grossness is a term used to indicate the unpleasant or objectionable qualities of something. Its antonyms refer to the opposite qualities, including cleanliness, neatness, pleasantness, and refinement. These words denote the elimination of anything disturbing or offensive, promoting elegance, and good taste. Other antonyms for grossness are sophistication, delicacy, grace, and subtlety. They imply the expression of beauty, artfulness, and charm. The antonyms of grossness are useful in expressing the value of the finer things in life, promoting good hygiene, and elevating the quality of experiences. Together, they make up the lexicon of contrasting themes that shape and define our understanding of the world.

Usage examples for Grossness

The paintings and statues, all told some classic tale of love, managed, however, with an insidious delicacy; which, while it banished the grossness that might disgust, was the more calculated to excite the imagination.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
Some sense of grossness in him for the first time seared across her brain.
"Brand Blotters"
William MacLeod Raine
Garrison took Dixie over the seven furlongs twice, and in a manner, despite her grossness, the mare had never been taken before.
"Garrison's Finish A Romance of the Race-Course"
W. B. M. Ferguson

Famous quotes with Grossness

  • 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.
    William Ellery Channing
  • Goethe, as lately quoted by Matthew Arnold, said those who have science and art have religion; and added, let those who have not science and art have the popular faith; let them have this escape, because the others are closed to them. Without any hold upon the ideal, or any insight into the beauty and fitness of things, the people turn from the tedium and the grossness and prosiness of daily life, to look for the divine, the sacred, the saving, in the wonderful, the miraculous, and in that which baffles reason. The disciples of Jesus thought of the kingdom of heaven as some external condition of splendor and pomp and power which was to be ushered in by hosts of trumpeting angels, and the Son of man in great glory, riding upon the clouds, and not for one moment as the still small voice within them. To find the divine and the helpful in the mean and familiar, to find religion without the aid of any supernatural machinery, to see the spiritual, the eternal life in and through the life that now is--in short, to see the rude, prosy earth as a star in the heavens, like the rest, is indeed the lesson of all others the hardest to learn.
    John Burroughs
  • In this broad earth of ours, Amid the measureless grossness and the slag, Enclosed and safe within its central heart, Nestles the seed perfection.
    Walt Whitman
  • She [Comedy] it is who proposes the correcting of pretentiousness, of inflation, of dulness, and of the vestiges of rawness and grossness to be found among us. She is the ultimate civilizer, the polisher, a sweet cook.
    George Meredith
  • This conversation taught me that some of us can meet reality on this side of the grave. I do not envy them. Such adventures may profit the disembodied soul, but as long as I have flesh and blood I pray that my grossness preserve me. Our lower nature has its dreams. Mine is of a certain farm, windy but fruitful, half-way between the deserted moorland and the uninhabitable sea. Hither, at rare intervals, she should descend and he ascend, to shatter their spiritual communion by one caress.
    E. M. Forster

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