obscenity
/əbsˈɛnɪti/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.90 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Martha wouldn't go into the art museum because, as she put it, "They have obscenities just sitting out, on display!""
- "Bestiality was outlawed as an obscenity in the strongly conservative community."
- "Eliza couldn't stand her daughter's music; as she saw it, it was just shouted obscenities and a heavy drum beat."
- "Her mother favored a multiyear project: obscenities carved in intricate and clever juxtapositions, descending every finger, curling in lettered whorls across the palm, fanning in offensive rays across the opisthenar, which is the name for the back of the hand, a word that Leilani knew because she had studied the structure of the human hand in detail, the better to understand her difference."
- "Next up was the horse-trading. Or, as Brown describes it, consulting with stakeholders. That's how he found out that queca, with one C, is an obscenity in Portuguese."
- "The coalition of religious conservatives was campaigning against, in their view, rampant obscenity in the entertainment industry."
Etymology
From obscene + -ity, from Latin obscenitas.