obscenity
obscenity is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.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.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- abuse
- accent
- ambiguity
- anagram
- antiphrasis
- archaic
- archaism
- argot
- babu
- barbarism
- black
- brogue
- broken
- byword
- call
- cant
- clinch
- coin
- coiner
- colloquial
- colloquialism
- confusion
- corruption
- dialect
- dog
- double
- expression
- figure
- flash
- gibberish
- his
- idiom
- informal
- jargon
- kitchen
- language
- letter
- lingo
- lingua
- localism
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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