crudity
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 13
- Words With Friends
- 14
- Letters
- 7
/ˈkɹuːdɪti/
(UK)
Definition of crudity
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
- (uncountable)The state of being crude.
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noun
- (uncountable)The state of being crude.
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(countable)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.””
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(countable, obsolete, uncountable)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.”
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Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French crudité, from Latin crūditās. By surface analysis, crude + -ity. Doublet of crudité.
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