Profanity
/prəˈfænɪti/ noun
noun ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The quality of being profane; quality of irreverence, of treating sacred things with contempt. uncountable
"The overwhelming power of his imagination led him to contemplate acts of impiety and profanity, and to a vivid realisation of the dangers these involved."
- 2 vulgar or irreverent speech or action wordnet
- 3 Obscene, lewd or abusive language. countable
"He ran up and down the street screaming profanities like a madman."
Example
More examples"Leaving an unburied corpse behind is profanity."
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin profānitās. By surface analysis, profane + -ity.