primitiveness

Curious jumble of modern and ancient city and village, primitiveness and the other thing.

It is important to realize the relative primitiveness of transportation at the close of the Civil War.

Primitiveness, we must remember, does not depend on antiquity of date.

You may get a gazelle on the way, or you may not, but you will experience mountain exploration in all its primitiveness.

“I fear you will detect much initial primitiveness in our methods of transportation,” he said.

This charm (let me add) by no means consists in mere primitiveness or mere archaism.