unculture

American  

[uhn-kuhl-cher] / ʌnˈkʌl tʃər /

noun

1. the lack or absence of culture.

   Much modern fiction is a product of unculture.

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Other Word Forms

• uncultured adjective

Etymology

Origin of unculture

First recorded in 1615–25; un- ¹ + culture

Example Sentences

Outgrown them not because the wages were too high but because their wants were too low; were only wants of the body, wants of the barrenest unculture; the inelastic wants.

From The Amateur Garden by Cable, George Washington

Plenty of coarseness there was, unculture and roughness everywhere; but, strangely enough, little vulgarity and no weakness, no deficient energy anywhere.

From That Boy Of Norcott's by Lever, Charles James