Crudity

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Crudity \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.
        [1913 Webster]
  


     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.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  crudity
       n 1: a wild or unrefined state [syn: {crudeness}, {primitiveness},
             {primitivism}, {rudeness}]
       2: an impolite manner that is vulgar and lacking tact or
          refinement; "the whole town was famous for its crudeness"
          [syn: {crudeness}, {gaucheness}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  30 Moby Thesaurus words for "crudity":
     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