obscenity
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obscenity
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From obscene + -ity, from Latin obscenitas.
noun obscenities
- Something that is obscene. Martha wouldn't go into the art museum because, as she put it, "They have obscenities just sitting out, on display!"
- An act of obscene behaviour. Bestiality was outlawed as an obscenity in the strongly conservative community.
- Specifically, an offensive word; a profanity; a dirty word. Eliza couldn't stand her daughter's music; as she saw it, it was just shouted obscenities and a heavy drum beat.
- Lewdness, indecency, or offensive behaviour or material. The coalition of religious conservatives was campaigning against, in their view, rampant obscenity in the entertainment industry.
- The fact of being obscene. Henia Flint Goodman, a Holocaust survivor,spoke in outrage against the obscenity of anti-abortion literature which compares a woman's free choice to have an abortion with the crimes of the Nazi state.
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noun something that is obscene
| Español | obscenidad |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 猥褻 waisetsu |
| 中文 | 淫穢 /淫秽 yínhuì, 猥褻 /猥亵 wěixiè |
| हिन्दी | अश्लीलता aślīltā |
| Português | obscenidade |
| Français | obscénité |
| Deutsch | Obszönität |
| Italiano | oscenità, turpiloquio |
| Русский | непристо́йность nepristójnostʹ, поха́бщина poxábščina |
| עברית | פריצות p"ritzût |
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title = {obscenity},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
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