Definition for GROSS'NESS

GROSS'NESS, n.

  1. Thickness; bulkiness; corpulence; fatness; applied to animal bodies.
  2. Thickness; spissitude; density; as, the grossness of vapors.
  3. 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. Dwight.
  4. Greatness; enormity; as, the grossness of vice.

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