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Meanings of primitiveness in English

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cruesa

A wild or unrefined state.

cruesa
Usage of primitiveness in English
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It was the raw primitiveness of the concept which appealed to her.
The Naked God
2
Besides its low situation and its primitiveness, Hebron has a third peculiarity.
The Book of Delight and Other Papers
3
Nat said you'd be horrified by our primitiveness-butI knew better!
The Glimpses of the Moon
4
In a dozen ways he could see her primitiveness, her kinship to the wilderness.
Flower of the North: A Modern Romance
5
He liked its quaintness, the primitiveness of the farmer-fisherman neighbors, he liked the sea.
The Golden House
6
Curious jumble of modern and ancient city and village, primitiveness and the other thing.
Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
7
She was astonished at the primitiveness of her emotions.
Mistress Anne
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Not alone was she solace to his loneliness, but her primitiveness rejuvenated his jaded mind.
The Faith of Men
9
But bring it up again, and all the problems and primitiveness of it might surprise you.
Wired
10
There was a brutal primitiveness to the combination of physical calm, coursing adrenaline, and super sensitivity.
Eve of darkness
11
Was there a kind of wild primitiveness in the scene, or was that merely his imagining?
Earth Abides
12
In the midst of this primitiveness, he noticed with amusement that he wore a fancy wristwatch.
Midnight at the well of souls
13
The word has come to suggest a certain vague primitiveness, instinct unleavened by experience, a false prophet.
The new yorker
14
This charm (let me add) by no means consists in mere primitiveness or mere archaism.
From a Cornish Window / A New Edition
15
A field hospital whose primitiveness dismayed him.
The Naked God
16
Some day we shall have an expression which will be, to our advanced primitiveness, a great joy:
The Book of the Damned
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Primitiveness through the time