rawness

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)The property of being raw.

   “The day broke gray and dull. The clouds hung heavily, and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow.”

   “Now, in spite of all sorts of defects, all sorts of woollinesses and rawnesses, the American novel is superior to either the English or the French; it is indeed superior, I think, to any European novel […]”