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: --
Irritant contact dermatitis is characterized mostly by sensations of rawness or burning.
If you have rawness and itching between your toes, you probably have athlete's foot.
He wants the natural rawness of the painting process to show through his balanced, bright, and whimsical work.
Irinas orphanage-derived rawness spills over into open conflict with the sedate moral proprieties of the convent.
He said that both singers had a rawness in their voices that made the song feel real.
However, the rawness, as an actor, shows in a variety of scenes.
Modern analysts emphasize the song's rawness, racism, and disdain for social taboos.
The rawness in the performances actually makes you forget these are actors.
Boianjiu presents the situation in her country and the army in total rawness, without masking the reality and beauty.
A tall brick chimney, mellowed from its first rawness by age, and a grove of well-grown trees marked the old pumping station.
