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Meanings of rawness in English

Portuguese
dor
Catalan
sensibilitat
Spanish
molestia

A pain that is felt (as when the area is touched)

        dor
        Catalan
        incompleció

        The state of being crude and incomplete and imperfect.

            incompleció
            Portuguese
            inexperiência
            Catalan
            inexperiència

            Lack of experience and the knowledge and understanding derived from experience.

                inexperiência
                Usage of rawness in English
                1
                In some way this film relates to the rawness of the emotions.
                The Guardian
                2
                The rawness in a song like Reno demands to be served cold.
                BBC
                3
                The rawness of his vocal in nearly every track always got me.
                Independent.ie
                4
                Dr McGibbon said the track helped people understand the rawness of the battle.
                Radio NZ
                5
                It's still very early stages for him but that rawness contains great potential.
                The Guardian
                6
                Perhaps the stranger felt that the rawness of the atmosphere demanded brisk movement.
                The Wheel O' Fortune
                7
                It shifted away from the hideous rawness I felt in the early weeks.
                The Guardian
                8
                A rawness spilled into his eyes, of need and words and things unsaid.
                Burnt Offerings
                9
                There is a moisture and a rawness in the weather, there, that hurts.
                Tramping on Life / An Autobiographical Narrative
                10
                The rawness of their grief and sense of injustice is hard to watch.
                The Guardian
                11
                Step by step, rock lost its visceral rawness and seductive sensuality.
                Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism
                12
                The air was fresh, but the rawness of spring was gone.
                Sir George Tressady — Volume I
                13
                The rawness of winter began to thaw into the fragile warmth of spring.
                James Potter and the Hall of Elders' Crossing
                14
                There's also a rawness to intense exercise in the freezing dawn.
                News.com.au
                15
                So much of the old longing and rawness is long gone.
                The Irish Times
                16
                But there's no denying the rawness of the nerve he touched.
                The Guardian
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                Rawness through the time
                Rawness across language varieties
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