CRUDITY • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Crudity

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

Listen

noun

Crudity n. (pl. crudities)

The condition of being crude; rawness.

That which is in a crude or undigested state; hence, superficial, undigested views, not reduced to order or form. "Crudities in the stomach."

See images of 'Crudity'

Etymology of 'Crudity'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Crudity" Quotes from Famous Books

... the harvest had indeed come to the village itself, and we might expect to find some maturity and flavor in the thoughts of the villagers at last. Under those bright rustling yellow piles just ready to fall on the heads of the walkers, how can any crudity or greenness of thought or act prevail? When I stand where half a dozen large Elms droop over a house, it is as if I stood within a ripe pumpkin-rind, and I feel as mellow as if I were the pulp, though I may be somewhat ...

— Excursions • Henry D. Thoreau

... spiritual as its foundation, includes the sensuous. In this highest stage all eroticism not hallowed by mutual affection is felt as unpardonable. The purely sexual principle continues to exist, but whenever it appears in its impersonal and brutal crudity as an element hostile to personality, it creates the consciousness of the obscene. The obscene is, therefore, the purely sexual, not in its naive normality, but as a force inimical to a value, as a rule to ...

— The Evolution of Love • Emil Lucka

... In the second, the Latin grammar, Latin authors, and religion. In the third, completion of the grammar, difficult Latin authors, rhetoric, and logic. Williams calls this "Melanchthon's somewhat artless ideas of a proper school system," which he excuses as being "marked possibly by the crudity of a first effort at organization, but more probably controlled in form by the fewness of teachers in ...

— History of Education • Levi Seeley

... moment, and he thought she was going to break out tormentedly, pleadingly: "For God's sake, tell me what is in it!" But she checked this impulse—another was stronger. She pocketed the money—the crudity of the alternative was comical—and swept out of the room with the desperate concession: "You may tell ...

— The Pupil • Henry James

... The crudity, the primitive savagery of the scene gripped Hedin as nothing had gripped him before. He was astonished that the setting held for him so little of surprise. He fitted into the life naturally and perfectly as though to the manner born. But his own astonishment was as nothing as compared to the astonishment ...

— The Challenge of the North • James Hendryx

More quotes...