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primitiveness

[ UK /pɹˈɪmɪtˌɪvnəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. a wild or unrefined state

How To Use primitiveness In A Sentence

  • As to the kitchen and dining-room, I leave to your vivid imagination to picture their primitiveness, merely observing that nothing was ever more awkward and unworkmanlike than the whole tenement. The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52
  • That's part of the charm of the record, this very primitiveness of instrumentation and melody - as though we are looking in on something that isn't quite ready to be shown to the public yet, or was never even intended for it.
  • Modern man's primitiveness lurks beneath every layer of civilization, at times so obvious that one cannot see it.
  • This ingenuousness is doubtless dependent upon several factors, such as the primitiveness of the world, the isolation and uniqueness of the cities, the disparateness of cultures and the tenuousness of communication. Magicians of Gor
  • It is now the curative for all the world's ills from war, to poverty, to cultural primitiveness.
  • Much as many paleoanthropologists like to think of our evolution as a linear process, a gradual progression from primitiveness to perfection, this conceptual hold-over from the past is clearly in error.
  • In a very Screwtapian, that is to say diabolic irony, these nobler ideals are often the best disguise for our group selfishness, for we can thereby disguise our primitiveness even from ourselves. Assistant Village Idiot
  • This nostalgic embrace of primitiveness leads dystopians to interpret every technological advance as another step toward an ultimately dehumanized existence.
  • Due to its relative primitiveness and secluded location, schools in the area will remain inactive for the better part of three months.
  • That's part of the charm of the record, this very primitiveness of instrumentation and melody - as though we are looking in on something that isn't quite ready to be shown to the public yet, or was never even intended for it.
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