Hypertext Webster Gateway: "rusticity"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Rusticity \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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
rusticity
n : the quality of being rustic or gauche [syn: {gaucherie}]
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