crudity

[ kroo-di-tee ]
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noun,plural cru·di·ties for 2.
  1. the state or quality of being crude.

  2. something crude.

Origin of crudity

1
1375–1425; late Middle English crudite<Latin crūditās.See crude, -ity

Other words from crudity

  • un·cru·di·ty, noun, plural un·cru·di·ties.

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How to use crudity in a sentence

  • Later I saw him driving with an astonishingly handsome woman; who looked as if she had been born without crudities or illusions.

    Ancestors | Gertrude Atherton
  • Coryat in his Crudities, of the seventeenth century, remarks a difference between English and Italian manners.

  • Other small-pates chattered of how the divine works of nature shamed the crudities of man.

    The Cup of Fury | Rupert Hughes
  • Others in other parts of Europe took up the idea, and, while mixing with it many crudities, drew from it more and more truth.

  • They are crudities of rudimentary organisation, or are failures in or aberrations from the normal development of Life.

    Feminism and Sex-Extinction | Arabella Kenealy