Emily Dickinson Lexicon

RUDE'NESS, n.

1. A rough broken state; unevenness; wildness; as, the rudeness of a mountain, country or landscape.
2. Coarseness of manners; incivility; rusticity; vulgarity. And kings the rudeness of their joy must bear. Dryden.
3. Ignorance; unskillfulness. What he did amiss was rather through rudeness and want of judgment. Hayward.
4. Artlessness; coarseness; inelegance; as, the rudeness of a painting or piece of sculpture.
5. Violence; impetuosity; as, the rudeness of an attack or shock.
6. Violence; storminess; as, the rudeness of winds or of the season.