crudity

Other forms of crudity

plural

crudities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about crudity

What does crudity mean?

crudity means "a wild or unrefined state". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in crudity?

crudity has 3 syllables: cru-di-ty. The stress falls on "cru".

What is another word for crudity?

Close synonyms include crudeness, primitiveness, primitivism, rudeness, crudeness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is crudity a common word?

crudity is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.