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vulgarity - 4 dictionary results

vul⋅gar⋅i⋅ty

[vuhl-gar-i-tee]
–noun, plural -ties.
1. the state or quality of being vulgar: the vulgarity of his remark.
2. something vulgar, as an act or expression.

Origin:
1570–80; < LL vulgāritās commonness, the public. See vulgar, -ity


1. tastelessness, crudeness, grossness, indelicacy.
vul·gar·i·ty   (vŭl-gār'ĭ-tē)   
n.   pl. vul·gar·i·ties
  1. The quality or condition of being vulgar.
  2. Something, such as an act or expression, that offends good taste or propriety.

Vulgarity

Vul*gar"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. vulgarit['e], L. vulgaritas the multitude.]

1. The quality or state of being vulgar; mean condition of life; the state of the lower classes of society. --Sir T. Browne.

2. Grossness or clownishness of manners of language; absence of refinement; coarseness.

The reprobate vulgarity of the frequenters of Bartholomew Fair. --B. Jonson.
Language Translation for : vulgarity
Spanish: vulgaridad,
German: die Ungeschliffenheit,
Japanese: 俗悪

vulgarity 
1579, "the common people," from L.L. vulgaritas "the multitude," from vulgaris (see vulgar). Meaning "coarseness, crudeness" is recorded from 1774.
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