crudity

[ kroo-di-tee ]

/ ˈkru dɪ ti /

the state or quality of being crude.

something crude.

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1375–1425; late Middle English crudite < Latin crūditās. See crude, -ity

Related formsun·cru·di·ty, noun, plural un·cru·di·ties.

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I suppose the reasonable Anti-Socialist will hardly maintain it seriously with that crudity.
New Worlds For Old|Herbert George Wells
When one enters a cathedral close he feels that he is in a land that frowns on the crudity of change.
Humanly Speaking|Samuel McChord Crothers
I play upon his vanity, scoffing at the crudity of his plans of revenge.
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist|Alexander Berkman
Then Winckelmann and his successors triumphed over it for a while,—showed at least the crudity of that statement.
The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 13, No. 76, February, 1864|Various

The opening of Marcion's Gospel is more free from abruptness and crudity than that of Luke.
Supernatural Religion, Vol. II. (of III)|Walter Richard Cassels

early 14c., from Middle French crudité (14c.) and directly from Latin cruditatem (nominative cruditas), from crudus (see crude).