The word "coarseness" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe the roughness of something, especially when talking about texture. For example: "The coarseness of the fabrics made them very uncomfortable to wear."
Sandpaper is typically made from silicate, with different impurities added depending on the hardness or coarseness of the sandpaper.
What his war seemed to coin most readily was coarseness, acronyms and, above all, euphemisms, beginning with the very word "conflict" itself.Once on that trail generally, telling the truth and exposing cant he also found plenty of peacetime targets for his pen.
Most hair comes from China, but its coarseness makes it the least valuable.
Meeting him at a convention, he told him to "kiss my rebel ass".Such coarseness would upset Lanny Davis, who laments that American politics has degenerated into a game of "gotcha" between rival teams of "food fight ideologues".
He was alert to the "platitudinous babble" of von Ribbentrop, the star-struck love-words of Hitler's secretary and the coarseness, laced with Franconian intonations, of Julius Streicher, publisher of the vilely anti-Jewish Der Stürmer.
All the same, says one campaigner, Mr Ahmadinejad is perfectly capable, by some of act of coarseness or brutality, of bringing people into the streets again.
Classification according to coarseness or spacing of the teeth is confined to single- and double-cut files.
His background, which he did not attempt to hide, gave his novels an intensity, a deliberate coarseness, and sometimes a fury not to be found in the works of his contemporaries, most of them from prosperous families.
It is paradoxical, therefore, that his personality should be so clearly discernible in all his work and that his letters, written casually to his intimates and full of disarming sincerity, delicate sensibility, and even exquisite tenderness side by side with jovial coarseness of expression should be considered by some critics as his masterpiece.
His major characteristics of imaginative power, grim strength, and a certain coarseness of style are apparent in his illustrations for editions of the works of Theocritus, Giovanni Boccaccio, Giovanni Giacomo Casanova, Gaius Petronius Arbiter, and François Rabelais and for his own novel The Cautious Amorist (1932).
But the ascetic black general was repelled by the proposals of the European radical to exterminate the Europeans, and he was offended by Sonthonax's atheism, coarseness, and immorality.
