PRIMITIVENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does primitiveness mean? 

• PRIMITIVENESS (noun)
  The noun PRIMITIVENESS has 1 sense:

1. a wild or unrefined state

  Familiarity information: PRIMITIVENESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRIMITIVENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A wild or unrefined state

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

crudeness; crudity; primitiveness; primitivism; rudeness

Hypernyms ("primitiveness" is a kind of...):

natural state; state of nature; wild (a wild primitive state untouched by civilization)

Derivation:

primitive (used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies)

primitive (little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type)

primitive (belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness)

 Context examples 

"What I like about it is the struggle, the endeavor with one's own hands, the primitiveness of it, the realness."

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)