Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for GROSS'NESS
GROSS'NESS, n.
- Thickness; bulkiness; corpulence; fatness; applied to animal bodies.
- Thickness; spissitude; density; as, the grossness of vapors.
- 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.
- Greatness; enormity; as, the grossness of vice.
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