rawness

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English

Etymology

raw +‎ -ness

Noun

rawness (countable and uncountable, plural rawnesses)

  1. The property of being raw.
    • 1915, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter I, in Of Human Bondage, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC, page 1:
      The day broke gray and dull. The clouds hung heavily, and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow.
    • 1939, Forum, volume 102, page 226:
      Now, in spite of all sorts of defects, all sorts of woollinesses and rawnesses, the American novel is superior to either the English or the French; it is indeed superior, I think, to any European novel […]

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