clownishnessn.
/ˈklaʊnɪʃnɛs/ Clownish quality; rusticity, rudeness; want of politeness, culture, or refinement.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [noun] > unmannerliness > unrefined manners or behaviour
villainyc1340
churlhood1382
rudenessc1405
boistousness1526
uplandishness1530
rusticity1531
coarseness1541
loutishnessa1556
grossness1563
boorishness1570
rusticality1572
clownishness1576
bouerie1577
roughness1581
clownery1589
swinishness1591
peasantryc1592
inurbanity1598
community1600
rusticalnessa1603
clownagea1637
wildness1639
vulgarness1642
unpolishedness1652
brutism1687
mismanners1697
unpoliteness1700
brutality1709
mechanicism1710
indelicacy1712
untameness1727
vulgarism1749
vulgaritya1774
shag1785
piggishness1796
cubbishness1828
sylvanity1832
rusticness1838
plebeianness1840
swainishness1854
baboonery1857
yahooism1862
slanginess1865
bucolicism1879
vulgarianism1920
outbackery1961
yobbishness1969
ockerism1974
blokeishness1989
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > peasant or rustic > [noun] > rude or ignorant > quality or condition of
clownishness1576
agresty1730
1576 A. Fleming tr. G. Macropedius in Panoplie Epist. 372 Ignoraunce..ingendreth in him rusticalitie or clownishnesse.
1692 J. Locke Some Thoughts conc. Educ. 67 That plainness of Nature, which the Alamode people call Clownishness.
1868 C. M. Yonge Cameos 1st Ser. i. 4 The English were degenerating into clownishness.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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