uncouthness

Variant of uncouth

adjective

  1. Archaic not known or familiar; strange
  2. awkward; clumsy; ungainly
  3. uncultured; crude; boorish

Origin: ME < OE uncuth, unknown < un-, not + cuth, pp. of cunnan, to know: see can

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