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) anarchy, lawlessness (a state of lawlessness and disorder (usually resulting from a failure of government))
• S: (n) instability (an unstable order)
• S: (n) confusion (disorder resulting from a failure to behave predictably) "the army retreated in confusion"
• S: (n) rioting, riot (a state of disorder involving group violence)
• S: (n) rowdiness, rowdyism, roughness, disorderliness (rowdy behavior)
• S: (n) disturbance, disruption, commotion, flutter, hurly burly, to-do, hoo-ha, hoo-hah, kerfuffle (a disorderly outburst or tumult) "they were amazed by the furious disturbance they had caused"
• S: (n) discord, strife (lack of agreement or harmony)
• S: (n) turbulence, upheaval, Sturm und Drang (a state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally)) "the industrial revolution was a period of great turbulence"
• 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"