rawness
nounEtymology From raw + -ness.
1
The property of being raw.
- The day broke gray and dull. The clouds hung heavily, and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow.1915, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter I, in Of Human Bondage, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC, page 1:
- 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 […]1939, Forum, volume 102, page 226: