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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