Definition of "primitiveness" [prim•i•tive•ness]

• The quality or state of being primitive. (noun)

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• "Qutb was particularly exercised by what he saw as the "primitiveness" of American values, not least in matters of sex."
• "For instance, he paused in the middle of reading his argument that archaeological searches for "primitiveness" were useless in the search for origins because all "primitive" cultures represented a decline from a star-going culture."
• "She accused me, however, of reveling in that primitiveness which is the last resort of the sophisticated -- like the log cabins the city folk fashion for themselves when they get up in the Adirondacks."