expressive style vs coarseness

coarseness vs expressive style

expressive style and coarseness both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
expressive style	Yes	No	No	No
coarseness	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, coarseness is a hyponym of expressive style; that is, coarseness is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than expressive style:

expressive style: a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period
coarseness: language or humor that is down-to-earth

Other hyponyms of expressive style include allegory, analysis, bathos, black humor, black humour, device, eloquence, fluency, smoothness, euphuism, flatness, expression, formulation, grandiloquence, grandiosity, magniloquence, ornateness, rhetoric, headlinese, jargon, journalese, legalese, delivery, manner of speaking, speech, officialese, pathos, prose, rhetoric, saltiness, self-expression, sesquipedality, terseness, turn of expression, turn of phrase, vein, verboseness, verbosity, genre, literary genre, writing style, poetry, digressiveness.

expressive style (noun)	coarseness (noun)
a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period	looseness or roughness in texture (as of cloth)
	the quality of being composed of relatively large particles
	the quality of lacking taste and refinement
	language or humor that is down-to-earth

Difference between expressive style and coarseness

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