noun
- Language or humor that is down-to-earth.
- usage: "the saltiness of their language was inappropriate"; "self-parody and saltiness riddled their core genre"
- synonyms: saltiness
- The quality of being composed of relatively large particles.
- synonyms: graininess, granularity
- Looseness or roughness in texture (as of cloth.
- synonyms: nubbiness, tweediness
- The quality of lacking taste and refinement.
- synonyms: commonness, grossness, vulgarity, vulgarism, raunch
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