Noah Webster
Grossness
GROSSNESS, noun Thickness; bulkiness; corpulence; fatness; applied to animal bodies.
1. Thickness; spissitude; density; as the grossness of vapors.
2. Coarseness; rudeness; want of refinement or delicacy; vulgarity; as the grossness of language; the grossness of wit.
Abhor the swinish grossness that delights to wound the ear of delicacy.
3. Greatness; enormity; as the grossness of vice.