profanity
noun/prəˈfænɪti/
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin profānitās. By surface analysis, profane + -ity.
- derived from profānitās
Definitions
The quality of being profane
The quality of being profane; quality of irreverence, of treating sacred things with contempt.
- The overwhelming power of his imagination led him to contemplate acts of impiety and profanity, and to a vivid realisation of the dangers these involved.
Obscene, lewd or abusive language.
- He ran up and down the street screaming profanities like a madman.
- Mr. [Kash] Patel said he would not tolerate any more “Mickey Mouse operations,” an official on the call recounted. It was one of his few utterances without profanity, the person added.
The neighborhood
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for profanity. 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