Meaning of CRUDITY
| Pronunciation: | | 'krooditee
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- [n] an impolite manner that is vulgar and lacking tact or refinement; "the whole town was famous for its crudeness"
- [n] a wild or unrefined state
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| | Synonyms: | | crudeness, crudeness, gaucheness, primitiveness, primitivism, rudeness |
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| | See Also: | | impoliteness, natural state, state of nature, wild | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Cru"di*ty\ (kr[udd]"d[i^]*t[y^]), n.; pl. {Crudities}
(-t[i^]z). [L. cruditas, fr. crudus: cf. F. crudit['e]. 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. ``Crudities in the stomach.'' --Arbuthnot.
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| | Related Terms: | | callowness, coarseness, crassness, crudeness, earthiness, gaudiness, greenness, grossness, immatureness, immaturity, loudness, meretriciousness, nondevelopment, obscenity, oversimplicity, oversimplification, rawness, reductionism, ribaldry, roughness, rudeness, simplism, the rough, uncultivation, undevelopment, unfinish, unfinishedness, unfledgedness, unrefinement, unripeness |
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