roughness

Plural: roughnesses

Noun

• a texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven
• the quality of being unpleasant (harsh or rough or grating) to the senses
• an unpolished unrefined quality
• used of the sea during inclement or stormy weather
• rowdy behavior
• the formation of small pits in a surface as a consequence of corrosion
• 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"
• The property of being rough, coarseness.
• Something that is rough; a rough spot.
• Roughage; coarse fodder.
• Abundance, especially of food.
• A measure of how rough something is, such as a surface

Examples

• The roughness of the road made me wonder if my car would fall apart.
• The surface roughness was low.

Synonyms

choppiness, crudeness, disorderliness, harshness, indentation, pitting, raggedness, rough water, rowdiness, rowdyism

Antonyms

smoothness