primitiveness

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He describes a society characterized by “widespread inhumanity, primitiveness and barbarism” and afflicted, owing to the shocks of industrialization and urbanization, “by terrible, and destabilizing, social problems.”

From New York Times • Apr. 8, 2022

Web 1.0, as we think of it now, consisted of an endless maze of linked, static Web sites: garish, goofy things, often, limited by the slowness of pre-broadband Internet and the primitiveness of Web browser tech.

From Washington Post • Nov. 10, 2015

Human behavior, in all its predictably irrational glory, is still the culmination of a complexity that dwarfs the relative primitiveness of the bacterium.

From Salon • Oct. 15, 2015

The major reason for the games' relative primitiveness is that the country's video-game industry didn't take off until the mid-2000s.

From Slate • May 26, 2010

Here, on the borders of death, life follows an amazingly simple course, it is limited to what is most necessary, all else lies buried in gloomy sleep;—in that besides our primitiveness and our survival.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque