earthiness

Synonyms for earthiness

noun rudeness, vulgarity

1550s, from earth + -y (2). Figurative sense of "coarse, unrefined" is from 1590s. Related: Earthiness.

She was an Egeria who hovered above him, gently smiling at his earthiness.

His passion is often impious in its earthiness; his yearning, sacrilege.

In spite of this earthiness, it still has its fanciful abstractions.

I do not really care how the naturalists maltreat language, but I do strenuously object to the earthiness of their ideas.

They divest objects of their earthiness by bold simplifications, and transform reality into dreamland.

She may be mortal woman—bless her—and have made mistakes; but theyre the mistakes of flame; not of earthiness.

The spring air in Green River had been full of sweet moisture and earthiness from these steaming meadow-lands.

So to Una there was the world-old shock at the earthiness of love—and the penetrating joy of that earthiness.