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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Roughness \Rough"ness\, noun The quality or state of being rough.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
roughness
noun
1: a texture that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven [ant: {smoothness}]
2: harsh or rough to the ear [syn: {harshness}]
3: an unpolished unrefined quality; "the crudeness of frontier dwellings depressed her" [syn: {crudeness}]
4: used of the sea [syn: {choppiness}, {rough water}]
5: rowdy behavior [syn: {rowdiness}, {rowdyism}, {disorderliness}]
6: the formation of small pits in a surface as a consequence of corrosion [syn: {pitting}, {indentation}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
239 Moby Thesaurus words for "roughness": CAT, Gothicism, abruptness, acerbity, acidity, acidulousness, acridity, acrimony, acuteness, aerospace, aerosphere, aggressiveness, air hole, air pocket, airspace, animality, arrhythmia, asperity, astringency, atrocity, austerity, bad taste, barbarism, barbarity, barbarousness, bearishness, beastliness, bite, bitingness, bitterness, bloodlust, bluntness, bombasticness, boorishness, brashness, brokenness, brusqueness, brusquerie, brutality, bump, cacology, cacophony, callowness, capriciousness, causticity, ceiling, choppiness, churlishness, clumsiness, coarse-grainedness, coarseness, cracked voice, crassness, crosswind, crudeness, crudity, crustiness, cumbrousness, curtness, cuttingness, destructiveness, desultoriness, disconnectedness, discontinuity, discord, dryness, dysphemism, earthiness, eccentricity, edge, empty space, erraticness, extremity, favorable wind, ferociousness, fibrillation, fierceness, fitfulness, fits and starts, fluctuation, fog, force, front, furiousness, gaudiness, gracelessness, graininess, granularity, granulation, greenness, grimness, grip, grittiness, grossness, gruffness, gutturalism, gutturality, gutturalness, hardness, harshness, head wind, heaviness, high-pressure area, hoarseness, hole, huskiness, ill-balanced sentences, immatureness, immaturity, impetuosity, impropriety, impurity, inclemency, inconcinnity, inconstancy, incorrectness, indecorousness, inelegance, inelegancy, infelicity, inhumanity, intensity, intermittence, ionosphere, irregularity, jerkiness, jetstream, keenness, lack of finish, lack of polish, leadenness, loudness, low-pressure area, malignity, mercilessness, meretriciousness, mindlessness, mordacity, mordancy, murderousness, nastiness, nondevelopment, nonuniformity, obscenity, overcast, oversimplicity, oversimplification, patchiness, piquancy, pitilessness, pocket, poignancy, point, pompousness, ponderousness, poor diction, pungency, raspiness, raucity, rawness, reductionism, ribaldry, rigor, rudeness, savagery, scrapiness, scratchiness, sesquipedalianism, sesquipedality, severity, sharpness, shortness, simplism, slipshod construction, soup, sourness, space, spasticity, sporadicity, sporadicness, spottiness, stagger, sternness, stertorousness, stiltedness, sting, stratosphere, stridency, stringency, substratosphere, surliness, tail wind, tartness, tastelessness, teeth, terrorism, the rough, thickness, throatiness, trenchancy, tropopause, troposphere, trough, truculence, turbulence, turgidity, ugliness, uncertainty, uncouthness, uncultivation, undevelopment, uneuphoniousness, unevenness, unfinish, unfinishedness, unfledgedness, ungentleness, ungracefulness, unmethodicalness, unpredictability, unrefinement, unripeness, unseemliness, unsteadiness, unsystematicness, unwieldiness, vandalism, variability, vehemence, venom, viciousness, violence, virulence, visibility, visibility zero, vulgarism, vulgarity, whimsicality, wobble
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