rawness

raw +‎ -ness

rawness (countable and uncountable, plural rawnesses)

1. The property of being raw.
   • 1915, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter I, in Of Human Bondage, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC, page 1:

     The day broke gray and dull. The clouds hung heavily, and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow.

   • 1939, Forum, volume 102, page 226:

     Now, in spite of all sorts of defects, all sorts of woollinesses and rawnesses, the American novel is superior to either the English or the French; it is indeed superior, I think, to any European novel […]

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