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countable and uncountable, plural grossnesses
Lack of refinement in character, behaviour etc.; coarseness. quotations examples
Now that he was doing so much else she could never have the grossness to apply for it to Sir Claude.
1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew
He […] began to descend to familiar questions, endeavouring to accommodate his discourse to the grossness of rustic understandings. The clowns soon found that he did not know wheat from rye, and began to despise him; one of the boys, by pretending to show him a bird's nest, decoyed him into a ditch; […]
August 25, 1759, Samuel Johnson, The Idler No. 71
(slang) The quality of being repulsive or disgusting.
(obsolete) Size.