Dictionary Definition
crudity
Noun
2 an impolite manner that is vulgar and lacking
tact or refinement; "the whole town was famous for its crudeness"
[syn: crudeness,
gaucheness]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
- The state of being crude.
- A crude act or characteristic.
- 1889, Oscar Wilde,
"The Decay Of Lying: An Observation,"
- What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition.
- 1889, Oscar Wilde,
"The Decay Of Lying: An Observation,"
Synonyms
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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