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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

GROSSNESS

n.Thickness; bulkiness; corpulence; fatness; applied to animal bodies. 1. Thickness; spissitude; density; as the grossness of vapors.
2. Coarseness; rudeness; want of refinement or delicacy; vulgarity; as the grossness of language; the grossness of wit.
Abhor the swinish grossness that delights to wound the ear of delicacy.
3. Greatness; enormity; as the grossness of vice.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

GROSSNESS

GROSSNESS Gross "ness, n.

 

Defn: The state or quality of being gross; thickness; corpulence; coarseness; shamefulness. Abhor the swinish grossness that delights to wound the' ear of delicacy. Dr. T. Dwight.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

grossness

gr ó ss ness 名詞 U ひどさ ; 下品さ ; 肥満, 肥大 ; 愚鈍 .

 

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