CRUDITY
crudeness, crudity, gaucheness
(noun) an impolite manner that is vulgar and lacking tact or refinement; “the whole town was famous for its crudeness”
crudeness, crudity, primitiveness, primitivism, rudeness
(noun) a wild or unrefined state
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
crudity (countable and uncountable, plural crudities)
(uncountable) The state of being crude.
(countable) A crude act or characteristic.
(obsolete, medicine) Indigestion; undigested food in the stomach; badly-concocted humours.
Synonyms
• crudeness
Source: Wiktionary
Cru"di*ty (kr"d-t), n.; pl. Crudities (-t. Etym: [L. cruditas, fr. crudus: cf. F. crudit. See Crude.]
1. The condition of being crude; rawness.
2. That which is in a crude or undigested state; hence, superficial, undigested views, not reduced to order or form. "Cridities in the stomach." Arbuthnot.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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