rusticity

[ ruh-stis-i-tee ]

/ rʌˈstɪs ɪ ti /

the state or quality of being rustic.

rural character or life.

Origin of rusticity

1525–35; < Middle French rusticite < Latin rūstic(us) rustic + Middle French -ite -ity

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Of course he had betrayed his ignorance and rusticity in a hundred little ways.
Tom Tufton's Travels|Evelyn Everett-Green
A photograph or any ornamentation whatever upon a card savors of ill-breeding or rusticity.
Social Life|Maud C. Cooke
Prince Villari remarked it, and supposed that the fit of rusticity was not yet over.
The Rubicon|E. F. Benson
Hence, to be a farmer here implies no social inferiority, no rusticity, no boorishness.
The Blue-Grass Region of Kentucky|James Lane Allen

She must not be too plain—that would seem like rusticity: nor too magnificent—that would be ostentation.
A Fair Mystery|Bertha M. Clay

Word Origin and History for rusticity

1530s, from Middle French rusticite (15c.), from Latin rusticitatem (nominative rusticitas) "country life," from rusticus (see rustic (adj.)).