primitiveness
noun
primitiveness is a noun meaning “The quality or state of being primitive” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-R-I-M-I-T-I-V-E-N-E-S-S, and it appears about once in every 71 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of primitiveness is primitivenesses.
What does primitiveness mean?
noun
- 1
The quality or state of being primitive.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce primitiveness?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-NaomiAmethyst-primitiveness.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of primitiveness
- primitivenesses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is primitiveness?
Primitiveness appears about once in every 71 million words in written English, the 265,644th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Primitiveness in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense quality or state of being primitive:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | primitivismo |
| Spanish | primitivismo |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does primitiveness come from?
From primitive + -ness.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).