Noun

• S: (n) roughness, raggedness (a texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven)
• S: (n) harshness, roughness (the quality of being harsh or rough or grating to the senses)
• S: (n) crudeness, roughness (an unpolished unrefined quality) "the crudeness of frontier dwellings depressed her"
• S: (n) choppiness, roughness, rough water (used of the sea during inclement or stormy weather)
• S: (n) rowdiness, rowdyism, roughness, disorderliness (rowdy behavior)
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) disorder (a disturbance of the peace or of public order)
• S: (n) state (the way something is with respect to its main attributes) "the current state of knowledge"; "his state of health"; "in a weak financial state"
• S: (n) attribute (an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity)
• S: (n) abstraction, abstract entity (a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples)
• S: (n) entity (that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving))
• derivationally related form
• S: (n) pitting, roughness, indentation (the formation of small pits in a surface as a consequence of corrosion)
• S: (n) roughness (harsh or severe speech or behavior) "men associate the roughness of nonstandard working-class speech with masculinity"; "the roughness of her voice was a signal to keep quiet"