English > primitiveness: 1 sense > noun 1, state| Meaning | A wild or unrefined state. |
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| Synonyms | crudeness, crudity, primitivism, rudeness |
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| Broader | wild, natural state, state of nature | A wild primitive state untouched by civilization |
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| Spanish | crudeza, grosería, primitivismo, tosquedad |
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| Catalan | barroeria, cruesa, grosseria, primitivisme, primitivitat, tosquedat |
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| Adjectives | primitive | little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type |
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| primitive | belonging to an early stage / stage of technical development |
| primitive | used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies |