Adjective : primitive forms of life. ,primitive toolmaking. ,primitive passions. ,the primitive phase of the history of a town. ,primitive ideas and habits. ,a primitive farm implement. ,primitive living conditions. From Dictionary.com.
A certain "primitiveness" of outline, and a more concentrated style. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Wilderness] Reference
"We can preserve culture but not primitiveness," he said. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The fact she had no top on also symbolized primitiveness. From Wordnik.com. [How History Is going to Judge Us in Africa] Reference
Still less am I inclined to dispute the ˜primitiveness 'or. From Wordnik.com. [Henry Sidgwick] Reference
Would the nose of primitive man be so lacking in primitiveness?. From Wordnik.com. [Sculpture of the Exposition Palaces and Courts] Reference
Does anyone still doubt the primitiveness of these two cultures?. From Wordnik.com. [Women Erased in Israel, Flogged in Pakistan and Restricted in Afghanistan - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
Do we evolve towards greatness or remain static in primitiveness?. From Wordnik.com. [The Enlightenment of Resistance] Reference
Control structures are a tradeoff between primitiveness and convenience. From Wordnik.com. [February 2006] Reference
The emotions are feral, but not quite the primitiveness of rock and roll. From Wordnik.com. [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference
In this they make clear their primitiveness, and their vitality and health. From Wordnik.com. [Mercenaries Of Gor]
Colorwise, they were for the most part undistinguished, a sure sign of primitiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Into the Thinking Kingdoms]
Nothing ruffled him or worried him, and his patience was of an enduring primitiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter II] Reference
In their ordinary life the Bahrein people still retain the primitiveness of the Bedouin. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Arabia] Reference
Squatting has nothing to do with the impoverished Third World, primitiveness, or recidivism. From Wordnik.com. [Yuna Shin: I Squat. Do You? Thoughts on Squatting vs. Sitting] Reference
Not alone was she solace to his loneliness, but her primitiveness rejuvenated his jaded mind. From Wordnik.com. [THE STORY OF JEES UCK] Reference
Some day we shall have an expression which will be, to our advanced primitiveness, a great joy. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
What I like about it is the struggle, the endeavor .... the primitiveness of it, the realness. '. From Wordnik.com. [Le Milieu, Le Moment, La Race: Literary Naturalism in Jack London's White Fang] Reference
Pathetic in their primitiveness, in their delusion that to be non-evolved was in some way superior. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
Squatting was seen as a sign of primitiveness while sitting on chairs was seen as a sign of civilization. From Wordnik.com. [Yuna Shin: I Squat. Do You? Thoughts on Squatting vs. Sitting] Reference
Human evolution thus became the story of a long, single-minded struggle from primitiveness to perfection. From Wordnik.com. [Rethinking Human Evolution] Reference
Is this consistent with your notion that the number of tones is positively correlated with “primitiveness”?. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » “Otherwise Incorrect”] Reference
Other devices of similar primitiveness were resorted to in the course of the work, and at last she was finished. From Wordnik.com. [Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men] Reference
Maybe this is intersecting with our own assumptions as to the primitiveness of the people who carved the figure. From Wordnik.com. [News Coverage Of The Newly Discovered “Venus” Figurine » Sociological Images] Reference
"What I like about it is the struggle, the endeavor with one's own hands, the primitiveness of it, the realness.". From Wordnik.com. [A DAY'S LODGING] Reference
I see a lot of delusion and corruption and deception and laziness and self-indulgence and primitiveness of thought. From Wordnik.com. [The World 50 Years Hence] Reference
And the primitiveness of the supposed single stock, which, after all, is the essential part of the matter, is not only. From Wordnik.com. [Essays] Reference
The strong, primitiveness of him was as alien to anything that was in Ruth as if the two had never seen each other before. From Wordnik.com. [Joyce of the North Woods] Reference
She commits suicide and he blames the primitiveness of the emergency services, sulks and kicks his precious record player. From Wordnik.com. [Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema] Reference
I was suddenly struck by the primitiveness of my surroundings, as if this town had stubbornly decided to stay mired in the past. From Wordnik.com. [Where I find inspiration …] Reference
Wesley Dean, now in his blue overalls and working shirt, became a king in his own domain, a part of the fair primitiveness about them. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921] Reference
So, the very primitiveness and infrequency of the past distractions enabled us to stay focused on what we were doing for extended periods. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Jim Taylor: Be Focused, Be Happy] Reference
In an age of the highest civilization, freely chosen primitiveness among the simple pleasures of nature seemed to be the best way to relax. From Wordnik.com. [Blazing Sun]
She was astonished at the primitiveness of her emotions. From Wordnik.com. [Mistress Anne] Reference
This charm (let me add) by no means consists in mere primitiveness or mere archaism. From Wordnik.com. [From a Cornish Window A New Edition] Reference
He liked its quaintness, the primitiveness of the farmer-fisherman neighbors, he liked the sea. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference
B, — confessedly the oldest scheme of chapters extant, is in itself a striking note of primitiveness. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark] Reference
Liberal lawyers in Europe scoff at the perceived primitiveness of Singapore which still persists with capital punishment. From Wordnik.com. [TODAYonline] Reference
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