noun
1. language or humor that is down-to-earth
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the saltiness of their language was inappropriate
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self-parody and saltiness riddled their core genre
• Syn: ↑saltiness
• Hypernyms: ↑expressive style, ↑style
2. the quality of being composed of relatively large particles
• Syn: ↑graininess, ↑granularity
• Derivationally related forms: ↑granular (for: ↑granularity), ↑grainy (for: ↑graininess)
• Hypernyms: ↑roughness, ↑raggedness
• Hyponyms: ↑sandiness
3. looseness or roughness in texture (as of cloth)
• Syn: ↑nubbiness, ↑tweediness
• Hypernyms: ↑roughness, ↑raggedness
4. the quality of lacking taste and refinement
• Syn: ↑commonness, ↑grossness, ↑vulgarity, ↑vulgarism, ↑raunch
• Derivationally related forms: ↑raunchy (for: ↑raunch), ↑vulgar (for: ↑vulgarity), ↑gross (for: ↑grossness), ↑common (for: ↑commonness), ↑coarse
• Hypernyms: ↑inelegance
Useful english dictionary. 2012.