RUDENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rudeness mean? 

• RUDENESS (noun)
  The noun RUDENESS has 2 senses:

1. a manner that is rude and insulting

2. a wild or unrefined state

  Familiarity information: RUDENESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RUDENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A manner that is rude and insulting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

discourtesy; rudeness

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

manner; personal manner (a way of acting or behaving)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rudeness"):

boorishness (the manner of a rude or insensitive person)

impoliteness (a discourteous manner that ignores accepted social usage)

ungraciousness (an offensive lack of good manners)

incivility (deliberate discourtesy)

abruptness; brusqueness; curtness; gruffness; shortness (an abrupt discourteous manner)

contempt; disrespect (a manner that is generally disrespectful and contemptuous)

cheekiness; crust; freshness; gall; impertinence; impudence; insolence (the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties)

Derivation:

rude (socially incorrect in behavior)

rude (lacking civility or good manners)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A wild or unrefined state

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

crudeness; crudity; primitiveness; primitivism; rudeness

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

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

Derivation:

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

 Context examples 

Mr. Darcy felt their rudeness, and immediately said: This walk is not wide enough for our party.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

There, you are less than civil now; and I like rudeness a great deal better than flattery.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

How? Well, by his insufferable rudeness and impossible behavior.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

All evening, though I tried to think of other things, my mind would still turn to the apparition at the window and the rudeness of the woman.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Without any reason that could justify, any apology that could atone for the abruptness, the rudeness, nay, the insolence of it.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

He was warm in his reprobation of Mr. Elton's conduct; it had been unpardonable rudeness; and Mrs. Elton's looks also received the due share of censure.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

She leaned her forehead on the cool pane, and stood half hidden by the curtains, never minding that her favorite waltz had begun, till some one touched her, and turning, she saw Laurie, looking penitent, as he said, with his very best bow and his hand out... Please forgive my rudeness, and come and dance with me.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

A certain superciliousness of look, coolness of manner, nonchalance of tone, express fully their sentiments on the point, without committing them by any positive rudeness in word or deed.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

She was therefore obliged to seek another branch of the subject, and related, with much bitterness of spirit and some exaggeration, the shocking rudeness of Mr. Darcy.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

This is only doing it in a ruder way; and how do I know that Mr. Thorpe has—He may be mistaken again perhaps; he led me into one act of rudeness by his mistake on Friday.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)