Earthiness

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Earthiness \Earth"i*ness\, n.
     The quality or state of being earthy, or of containing earth;
     hence, grossness.
     [1913 Webster]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:



  72 Moby Thesaurus words for "earthiness":
     Adam, Philistinism, animalism, animality, beastliness, bestiality,
     brutality, brutishness, carnal nature, carnal-mindedness,
     carnality, coarseness, crassness, crudeness, crudity,
     down-to-earthness, earthliness, earthly-mindedness, fallen nature,
     fallen state, flesh, fleshliness, frankness, freedom from illusion,
     gaudiness, grossness, hardheadedness, lack of feelings,
     lapsed state, loudness, materialism, matter-of-factness,
     meretriciousness, mundaneness, nonspirituality, obscenity,
     positivism, postlapsarian state, practical-mindedness,
     practicality, practicalness, pragmaticism, pragmatism, raciness,
     rankness, rationality, rawness, realism, reasonableness, ribaldry,
     roughness, rudeness, saltiness, saneness, scientism, secularism,
     sensibleness, sober-mindedness, spiciness, swinishness,
     the Old Adam, the beast, the flesh, the offending Adam,
     uncouthness, unidealism, unromanticalness, unsentimentality,
     unspirituality, vulgarity, worldliness, worldly-mindedness