OBSCENITY - 9 definitions found
obscenity n 1: the trait of behaving in an obscene manner [syn: obscenity, lewdness, bawdiness, salaciousness, salacity] 2: an offensive or indecent word or phrase [syn: obscenity, smut, vulgarism, filth, dirty word] 3: an obscene act obscenity - pukub Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) obscenity noun (plural -ties) Date: 1589 1. the quality or state of being obscene 2. something (as an utterance or act) that is obscene Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary obscenity (obscenities) 1. Obscenity is behaviour, art, or language that is sexual and offends or shocks people. He insisted these photographs were not art but obscenity... N-UNCOUNT 2. An obscenity is a very offensive word or expression. They shouted obscenities at us and smashed bottles on the floor. N-VAR English Explanatory Dictionary obscenity ɔbˈsi:nɪtɪ n. (pl. -ies) 1 the state or quality of being obscene. 2 an obscene action, word, etc. [L obscaenitas (as OBSCENE)] Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Obscenity \Ob*scen"i*ty\, n.; pl. Obscenities. [L. obscentias: cf.F. obsc['e]nit['e].] That quality in words or things which presents what is offensive to chasity or purity of mind; obscene or impure lanquage or acts; moral impurity; lewdness; obsceneness; as, the obscenity of a speech, or a picture. Mr.Cowley asserts plainly, that obscenity has no place in wit. --Dryden. No pardon vile obscenity should find. --Pope. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms obscenity n. 1. Indecency, indelicacy, immodesty, unchastity, lewdness, obsceneness. 2. Ribaldry, lewdness, smuttiness, indelicacy. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 142 Moby Thesaurus words for "obscenity": Rabelaisianism, X-rated movie, abominability, animality, bad language, baseness, bawdiness, bawdry, beastliness, billingsgate, blue language, blue movie, carnality, clitoromania, coarseness, colorful language, concupiscence, contemptibility, contrariety, crassness, crudeness, crudity, curse, cursing, cuss, cuss word, cussing, despicability, despicableness, dirt, dirtiness, dirty language, dirty movie, dirty name, dirty talk, dirty word, disgustingness, dysphemism, earthiness, epithet, erotic art, erotic literature, eroticism, eroticomania, erotographomania, erotomania, evil speaking, expletive, fescenninity, filth, filthiness, filthy language, fleshliness, foul invective, foul language, foulness, fulsomeness, furor uterinus, gaudiness, goatishness, grossness, gynecomania, harshness, hatefulness, heinousness, horniness, hysteromania, iconolagny, ignobility, lasciviousness, lecherousness, lechery, lewdness, libidinousness, lickerishness, loathsomeness, loudness, lubriciousness, lubricity, lust, lustfulness, meretriciousness, nastiness, naughty word, nauseousness, no-no, noisomeness, noxiousness, nymphomania, oath, objectionability, objectionableness, obnoxiousness, odiousness, offensiveness, pornographic art, pornographic literature, pornographomania, pornography, profane oath, profane swearing, profanity, prurience, pruriency, putridity, putridness, randiness, rawness, rebarbativeness, repellence, repellency, repugnance, repulsiveness, ribaldry, rottenness, roughness, rudeness, salaciousness, salacity, satyriasis, satyrism, scatology, scurrility, sensuality, sexiness, sexploitation, sexuality, skin flick, smut, smuttiness, soft-core pornography, stag film, strong language, swearing, swearword, unparliamentary language, unrepeatable expressions, unspeakableness, uteromania, vile language, vileness, vulgar language |
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