rusticity

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English

Etymology

From rustic +‎ -ity, from Latin rusticitas.

Noun

rusticity (countable and uncountable, plural rusticities)

  1. The quality of being rustic.
    • 1953 February, H. A. Vallance, “To Brighton through the Shoreham Gap”, in Railway Magazine, page 81:
      The accommodation for passengers was designed on a rather lavish scale, as it was expected that extensive housing development would take place in the vicinity. These hopes were not realised, however, and, apart from the school buildings, the surroundings of the station have never lost their rusticity.
  2. That which makes something rustic.

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