vulgarity - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From vulgar + -ity, from Latin vulgaritas.
vulgarity (countable and uncountable, plural vulgarities)
- (uncountable) The quality of being vulgar.
1815, Jane Austen, Emma, volume III, chapter 13:
You will observe that I have not yet indulged myself in calling her by that name, even to you. Think, then, what I must have endured in hearing it bandied between the Eltons with all the vulgarity of needless repetition, and all the insolence of imaginary superiority
- (countable) An offensive or obscene act or expression.
- (offensive act): profanity
quality of being vulgar
- Albanian: (please verify) lapërdhi (sq) f
- Bulgarian: вулгарност (bg) f (vulgarnost), простащина (bg) f (prostaština)
- Catalan: vulgaritat f
- Czech: vulgárnost f, vulgarita (cs) f
- French: vulgarité (fr) f
- Galician: vulgaridade (gl) f
- Georgian: ვულგარულობა (vulgaruloba), უხამსობა (uxamsoba)
- German: Vulgarität (de) f
- Greek:
- Ancient: βαναυσία f (banausía)
- Portuguese: vulgaridade (pt) f
- Russian: вульга́рность (ru) f (vulʹgárnostʹ), по́шлость (ru) f (póšlostʹ)
- Scottish Gaelic: gràisgealachd f
- Serbo-Croatian: prostaštvo (sh) n, prostota (sh) f
- Spanish: vulgaridad (es) f
- Ukrainian: вульга́рність f (vulʹhárnistʹ)
offensive or obscene act
- Albanian: (please verify) lapërdhi (sq) f
- Catalan: vulgaritat f
- French: grossièreté (fr) f
- Galician: vulgaridade (gl) f
- Georgian: უხამსობა (uxamsoba)
- Portuguese: vulgaridade (pt) f
- Russian: по́шлость (ru) f (póšlostʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: просташтво n, простота f
- Roman: prostaštvo (sh) n, prostota (sh) f
- Spanish: vulgaridad (es) f
vulgarity
- inflection of vulgarita: