A rough broken state; unevenness; wildness; as the rudeness of a mountain, country or landscape.

Coarseness of manners; incivility; rusticity; vulgarity. And kings the rudeness of their joy must bear.

Ignorance; unskillfulness. What he did amiss was rather through rudeness and want of judgment - .

Artlessness; coarseness; inelegance; as the rudeness of a painting or piece of sculpture.

Violence; impetuosity; as the rudeness of an attack or shock.

Violence; storminess; as the rudeness of winds or of the season.