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"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• derivationally related form
• S: (n) choppiness, roughness, rough water (used of the sea during inclement or stormy weather)
• S: (n) rowdiness, rowdyism, roughness, disorderliness (rowdy behavior)
• 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"