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RUSTICITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being rustic or gauche
Synonyms:
gaucherie; rusticity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("rusticity" is a kind of...):
awkwardness; clumsiness; gracelessness; stiffness (the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment))
Antonym:
urbanity (the quality or character of life in a city or town)
Derivation:
rustic (awkwardly simple and provincial)
rustic (characteristic of the fields or country)
rustic (characteristic of rural life)
