unculture

American  

[uhn-kuhl-cher] / ʌnˈkʌl tʃər /

noun

1. the lack or absence of culture.

   Much modern fiction is a product of unculture.

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Other Word Forms

• uncultured
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of unculture

First recorded in 1615–25; un- ¹ + culture

Example Sentences

Plenty of coarseness there was, unculture and roughness everywhere; but, strangely enough, little vulgarity and no weakness, no deficient energy anywhere.

From That Boy Of Norcott's by Lever, Charles James

Outgrown them not because the wages were too high but because their wants were too low; were only wants of the body, wants of the barrenest unculture; the inelastic wants.

From The Amateur Garden by Cable, George Washington