| rusticity |
| rusticity | (n) the quality of being rustic or gauche, Syn. gaucherie, Ant. urbanity |
| Rusticity | n. [ L. rusticitas: cf. F. rusticité. ] The quality or state of being rustic; rustic manners; rudeness; simplicity; artlessness. [ 1913 Webster ] The sweetness and rusticity of a pastoral can not be so well expressed in any other tongue as in the Greek, when rightly mixed and qualified with the Doric dialect. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ] The Saxons were refined from their rusticity. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ] |