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• n  a wild or unrefined state

• In its primitiveness, its refusal of anything like psychological nuance or big ideas, lies its dubious glory.
• There's a sense of primitiveness, spirituality and exoticism it sells.
• The part of the brain that accounts for the urge to swear or yelp, in the case of animals is deep within, suggesting its primitiveness.

• crudeness
• crudity
• primitivism
• rudeness

News & Articles

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• Rock on: Fall decor trend set in stone
  Los Angeles interior and product designer Hilary Thomas says she responds to the divergent qualities of primitiveness and sophistication in rocks and minerals.
  Nov. 2, 2013 - Montgomery Advertiser

Quotes

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• Tarek Fatah in San Francisco Chronicle
  Multiculturalism can very easily provide fertile soil for nurturing our primitiveness, rather than celebrating reason and our common humanity,Fatah wrote in a recent Toronto Star column. "We risk creating a fragmented nation, divided into...
• Arjun Munda in Daily News & Analysis
  As per an anthropological report, identifying an Adivasi community is based on its primitiveness and not on its choice of profession,Munda said here.
• David Harris in Toronto Star
  It's pretty close to impossible to track down someone who isn't using high-tech communications and you don't have a human information source,says David Harris. "Paradoxically, returning to `primitiveness' gives him security and an...