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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. a wild or unrefined state;
[syn: crudeness, crudity, primitiveness, primitivism, rudeness]

2. an impolite manner that is vulgar and lacking tact or refinement;
- Example: "the whole town was famous for its crudeness"
[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