crassitude
Americannoun
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gross ignorance or stupidity.
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thickness; grossness.
Etymology
Origin of crassitude
1400–50; late Middle English (< Middle French ) < Latin crassitūdō thickness. See crass, -i-, -tude
Example Sentences
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But to lead anything on a large scale, without a continual winding-up by his companion, the fibrous Mrs. Romulus, was beyond the crassitude of Stellato's pursy nature.
From Project Gutenberg
There are three things that no man but a fool lends, or, having lent, is not in the most helpless state of mental crassitude if he ever hopes to get back again.
From Project Gutenberg
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