Antonyms for primitiveness

Grammar : Noun

Spell : prim-i-tiv

Phonetic Transcription : ˈprɪm ɪ tɪv

Definition of primitiveness

Origin : late 14c., "of an original cause; of a thing from which something is derived; not secondary" (a sense now associated with primary), from Old French primitif "very first, original" (14c.) and directly from Latin primitivus "first or earliest of its kind," from primitus "at first," from primus "first" (see prime (adj.)).
Meaning "of or belonging to the first age" is from early 15c. Meaning "having the style of an early or ancient time" is from 1680s. In Christian sense of "adhering to the qualities of the early Church" it is recorded from 1680s. Of untrained artists from 1942. Related: Primitively.

As in austerity : noun grimness, barrenness
As in simplicity : noun absence of complication,

Example sentences :

Primitiveness, we must remember, does not depend on antiquity of date.
Extract from : « Social Origins and Primal Law » by Andrew Lang

He accounts for its 'wildness' by its primitiveness; it was blasphemous because savage.
Extract from : « An Introduction to Mythology » by Lewis Spence

He is a very likable man, and there is little about his primitiveness that is repulsive.
Extract from : « The Bontoc Igorot » by Albert Ernest Jenks

Our object has been to defend the ‘primitiveness of fetichism.’
Extract from : « Custom and Myth » by Andrew Lang

"One judges the primitiveness of a race by its cultural and technological institutions," Harkaway said, with a lofty smile.
Extract from : « Once a Greech » by Evelyn E. Smith

The strong, primitiveness of him was as alien to anything that was in Ruth as if the two had never seen each other before.
Extract from : « Joyce of the North Woods » by Harriet T. Comstock

In their ordinary life the Bahrein people still retain the primitiveness of the Bedouin.
Extract from : « Southern Arabia » by Theodore Bent

If it be correct, as I still think it is, it cannot but be fatal to the Arunta claim to primitiveness.
Extract from : « The Secret of the Totem » by Andrew Lang

But as is invariably the case in Turkey, close inspection revealed the primitiveness and roughness.
Extract from : « The Red Rugs of Tarsus » by Helen Davenport Gibbons

Thus the simplicity of Patrick Henry's habits and tastes might be inferred from the primitiveness of his dwelling.
Extract from : « Homes of American Statesmen » by Various

Synonyms for primitiveness

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