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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Rusticity \Rus*tic"ity\, noun [L. rusticitas: cf. F. rusticit['e].] The quality or state of being rustic; rustic manners; rudeness; simplicity; artlessness.
The sweetness and rusticity of a pastoral can not be so well expressed in any other tongue as in the Greek, when rightly mixed and qualified with the Doric dialect. --Addison.
The Saxons were refined from their rusticity. --Sir W. Scott.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
rusticity
noun: the quality of being rustic or gauche [syn: {gaucherie}]
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