crudity
/ˈkɹuːdɪti/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.70 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Indigestion; undigested food in the stomach; badly-concocted humours.
Countable; Obsolete; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition."
- "These are the true glories of the Old Testament and of Israel; these, we trust and believe, will live to delight and inspire mankind, when the crudities recorded alike in sacred and profane literature shall have been purged away in a nobler humanity of the future."
- "Veteran GOP ad maker Jim Innocenzi had no qualms about the coded crudity, calling it “hilarious.”"
- "For there is no meat whatſoeuer, though otherwiſe wholeſome and good, but if it be vnſeaſonably taken, or immoderatly vſed, more then the ſtomack can well beare, will ingender crudity, and doe much harme."
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French crudité, from Latin crūditās. By surface analysis, crude + -ity. Doublet of crudité.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˈkɹuːdɪti/