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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

A crude, undigested, or unprepared state; rawness; unripeness; immatureness; unfitness for a destined use or purpose;

as, the

crudeness

of iron ore;

crudeness

of theories or plans

Noun.

Rawness; unripeness; an undigested or unprepared state; as the crudeness of flesh or plants, or of any body in its natural state.

A state of being unformed, or indigested; immatureness; as the crudeness of a theory.

crudeness ‎(countable and uncountable, plural crudenesses)

(uncountable) The state of being crude
(countable) A crude act or characteristic.
- 1960, Henry Steele Commager, "Is Ivy Necessary?" Saturday Review, vol. 43, 17 Sep., p. 86,
  We will never eliminate the crudenesses, the anti-intellectual rules, the mucker pose in higher education, until we give the universities back to faculty and students.