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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 coarseness
 粗糙,劣等,粗

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Coarse·ness n. The quality or state of being coarse; roughness; inelegance; vulgarity; grossness; as, coarseness of food, texture, manners, or language. “The coarseness of the sackcloth.”
    Pardon the coarseness of the illustration.   --L'Estrange.
    A coarseness and vulgarity in all the proceedings.   --Burke.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 coarseness
      n 1: the quality of being composed of relatively large particles
           [syn: graininess, granularity]
      2: looseness or roughness in texture (as of cloth) [syn: nubbiness,
          tweediness]
      3: the quality of lacking taste and refinement [syn: commonness,
          grossness, vulgarity, vulgarism, raunch]