crassitude

[kras-i-tood, -tyood]

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noun

gross ignorance or stupidity.
thickness; grossness.

Origin of crassitude

1400–50; late Middle English (< Middle French) < Latin crassitūdō thickness. See crass, -i-, -tude

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Related Words for crassitude

diameter, layer, sheet, density, width, consistency, dimension, girth, consistence, ply, grossness, compactness, stratum, intimacy, crassitude

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Historical Examples of crassitude

What then is this Crassitude of the water, with which it resisteth Division?
Discourse on Floating Bodies
Galileo Galilei
But such is the crassitude of your malignity that after this we hardly dare expect you.
The Letters of William James, Vol. 1
William James