crudity

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
crudity
    n 1: a wild or unrefined state [syn: {crudeness}, {crudity},
         {primitiveness}, {primitivism}, {rudeness}]
    2: an impolite manner that is vulgar and lacking tact or
       refinement; "the whole town was famous for its crudeness"
       [syn: {crudeness}, {crudity}, {gaucheness}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Crudity \Cru"di*ty\ (kr[udd]"d[i^]*t[y^]), n.; pl. {Crudities}
   (-t[i^]z). [L. cruditas, fr. crudus: cf. F. crudit['e]. See
   {Crude}.]
   1. The condition of being crude; rawness.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. That which is in a crude or undigested state; hence,
      superficial, undigested views, not reduced to order or
      form. "Crudities in the stomach." --Arbuthnot.
      [1913 Webster]
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
30 Moby Thesaurus words for "crudity":
      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
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