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Noun roughness has 6 senses
- roughness - a texture that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven
--1 is a kind of texture
Antonyms: smoothness
--1 has particulars:
- harshness, roughness - harsh or rough to the ear
--2 is a kind of timbre, timber, quality, tone
--2 has particulars: gruffness, hoarseness, huskiness
- crudeness, roughness - an unpolished unrefined quality; "the crudeness of frontier dwellings depressed her"
--3 is a kind of inelegance
- choppiness, roughness, rough water - used of the sea
--4 is a kind of storminess
- rowdiness, rowdyism, roughness, disorderliness - rowdy behavior
--5 is a kind of disorder
- pitting, roughness, indentation - the formation of small pits in a surface as a consequence of corrosion
--6 is a kind of corrosion, corroding, erosion
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