RU'DENESS, noun 1. A rough broken state; unevenness; wildness; as the rudeness of a mountain, country or landscape. 2. Coarseness of manners; incivility; rusticity; vulgarity. And kings the rudeness of their joy must bear. 3. Ignorance; unskillfulness. What he did amiss was rather through rudeness and want of judgment - 4. Artlessness; coarseness; inelegance; as the rudeness of a painting or piece of sculpture. 5. Violence; impetuosity; as the rudeness of an attack or shock. 6. Violence; storminess; as the rudeness of winds or of the season.
Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary ↗ · public-domain · returned verbatim, no AI