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Grossness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

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.

4. Abhor the swinish grossness that delights to wound the ear of delicacy.

5. Greatness; enormity; as the grossness of vice.

Grossness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The state or quality of being gross; thickness; corpulence; coarseness; shamefulness.