0 (of feelings or qualities) the fact of being powerful and difficult to control:
1 (of skin) the quality of being sore or painful because of being rubbed or damaged:
If you have rawness and itching between your toes, you probably have athlete's foot.
Irritant contact dermatitis is characterized mostly by sensations of rawness or burning.
These incidents show the rawness of political and religious sensitivities at the moment.
The campaign has brought out the rawness of feelings on both sides.
The rawness of the words is considered the only element necessary to expound the directorial vision.
I understand the rawness and the sense of grievance, but things must move on rapidly.
He said that he spoke with the rawness of a new apprentice.
We are dealing with the raw edge of policy, and it is not surprising that that rawness should show itself not only in our debates but in our constituency surgeries.