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roughness   (TTS Sound)

The noun roughness has 7 senses

• roughness, raggedness -- (a texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven)


• harshness, roughness -- (the quality of being unpleasant (harsh or rough or grating) to the senses)


• crudeness, roughness -- (an unpolished unrefined quality; "the crudeness of frontier dwellings depressed her")


• choppiness, roughness, rough water -- (used of the sea during inclement or stormy weather)


• rowdiness, rowdyism, roughness, disorderliness -- (rowdy behavior)


• pitting, roughness, indentation -- (the formation of small pits in a surface as a consequence of corrosion)


• 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")