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crudity

noun
/ˈkɹuːdɪti/UK

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French crudité, from Latin crūditās. By surface analysis, crude + -ity. Doublet of crudité.

  1. derived from crūditās
  2. borrowed from crudité

Definitions

  1. The state of being crude.

  2. A crude act or characteristic.

    • What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition.
    • Veteran GOP ad maker Jim Innocenzi had no qualms about the coded crudity, calling it “hilarious.”

  3. Indigestion

    Indigestion; undigested food in the stomach; badly-concocted humours.

    • For there is no meat whatſoeuer, though otherwiſe wholeſome and good, but if it be vnſeaſonably taken, or immoderatly vſed, more then the ſtomack can well beare, will ingender crudity, and doe much harme.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for crudity. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA