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WordNet Dictionary |
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[n] the quality of being rustic or gauche |
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RUSTICITY is a 9 letter word that starts with R. |
| | Synonyms: | | gaucherie |
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| | See Also: | | awkwardness, clumsiness, gracelessness, stiffness |
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Rus*tic"ity\, n. [L. rusticitas: cf. F.
rusticit['e].]
The quality or state of being rustic; rustic manners;
rudeness; simplicity; artlessness.
The sweetness and rusticity of a pastoral can not be so
well expressed in any other tongue as in the Greek,
when rightly mixed and qualified with the Doric
dialect. --Addison.
The Saxons were refined from their rusticity. --Sir W.
Scott.
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