Meanings
plural crudities
- uncountableThe state of being crude.
- countableA crude act or characteristic.
Veteran GOP ad maker Jim Innocenzi had no qualms about the coded crudity, calling it “hilarious.”
2021 October 31, Colleen Long, “How ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ became code for insulting Joe Biden”, in AP News, Associated Press2 more examples
What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition.
1889, Oscar Wilde, The Decay of Lying: An ObservationThese 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.
1918, James George Frazer, Folk-Lore In The Old Testament, volume 1, page xi - countableobsoleteuncountablemedicineIndigestion; undigested food in the stomach; badly-concocted humours.
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.
1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Diet rectified in quantity”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 2, section 2, member 1, subsection 2, page 309
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna wild or unrefined state
nounan impolite manner that is vulgar and lacking tact or refinement
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latincrūditās
- Middle Frenchcrudité
- Englishcrudity
Borrowed from Middle French crudité, from Latin crūditās. By surface analysis, crude + -ity. Doublet of crudité.
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Full word history & related roots →Translations
Esperanto krudeco
- krudecostate of being crude
Cite this entry
crudity. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/crudity
“crudity.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/crudity. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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