[syn: crudeness, crudity, gaucheness]
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]
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]
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