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
   • These 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
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...