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crudities

crudities is the plural of crudity.

Meaning of crudity

Noun

crudity (countable and uncountable, plural crudities)

  1. (uncountable) The state of being crude.
  2. (countable) A crude act or characteristic.
    • 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 Observation
  3. (obsolete) Indigestion; 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...

Questions about crudities

What is crudities the plural of?
Crudities is the plural of crudity.

Words near crudities in the dictionary

  1. crudest
  2. Crudgington
  3. Crudine
  4. crudite
  5. crudites
  6. crudities
  7. crudity
  8. crudité
  9. crudités
  10. crudle
  11. crudled

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