1. (

• saltiness ,
• coarseness

) language or humor that is down-to-earth; "the saltiness of their language was inappropriate"; "self-parody and saltiness riddled their core genre" ;

2. (

• coarseness ,
• graininess ,
• granularity

) the quality of being composed of relatively large particles ;

3. (

• coarseness ,
• nubbiness ,
• tweediness

) looseness or roughness in texture (as of cloth) ;

4. (

• coarseness ,
• commonness ,
• grossness ,
• vulgarity ,
• vulgarism ,
• raunch

) the quality of lacking taste and refinement ;