rusticity

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
rusticity
    n 1: the quality of being rustic or gauche [syn: {rusticity},
         {gaucherie}] [ant: {urbanity}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Rusticity \Rus*tic"ity\, n. [L. rusticitas: cf. F.
   rusticit['e].]
   The quality or state of being rustic; rustic manners;
   rudeness; simplicity; artlessness.
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         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.
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         The Saxons were refined from their rusticity. --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.
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