What does vulgarity mean?

Definitions for vulgarity
vʌlˈgær ɪ tivul·gar·i·ty

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word vulgarity.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. coarseness, commonness, grossness, vulgarity, vulgarism, raunchnoun

    the quality of lacking taste and refinement

Wiktionary

  1. vulgaritynoun

    The quality of being vulgar.

  2. vulgaritynoun

    An offensive or obscene act or expression.

ChatGPT

  1. vulgarity

    Vulgarity refers to the quality or state of being crude, coarse, lacking sophistication or good taste, offensive, indecent, or generally obscene. This can apply to behavior, language, gestures, or expressions. Vulgarity often deviates from customary societal norms. It can also include using rude or profane language, making obscene jokes or comments, or conducting oneself in an inappropriate or disrespectful manner.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Vulgaritynoun

    the quality or state of being vulgar; mean condition of life; the state of the lower classes of society

  2. Vulgaritynoun

    grossness or clownishness of manners of language; absence of refinement; coarseness

  3. Etymology: [Cf. F. vulgarit, L. vulgaritas the multitude.]

Wikidata

  1. Vulgarity

    Vulgarity is the quality of being common, coarse, or unrefined. This judgement may refer to language, visual art, social classes, or social climbers. It may never be self-referential because, to be aware of vulgarity is to display a degree of sophistication which thereby elevates the subject above the vulgar. From the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries, "vulgar" simply described the common language or vernacular of a country. From the mid-seventeenth century onward, it began to take on a pejorative aspect: "having a common and offensively mean character, coarsely commonplace; lacking in refinement or good taste; uncultured; ill bred". In the Victorian age, vulgarity broadly described many sorts of activity, such as pushing to get on a bus, wearing ostentatious clothing, and other similarly subtle aspects of behavior. In a George Eliot novel, one character could be vulgar for talking about money, a second because he criticizes the first for doing so, and a third for being fooled by the excessive refinement of the second. In language, the effort to avoid vulgarity could leave characters at a loss for words. In George Meredith's Beauchamp's Career, an heiress does not wish to make the commonplace statement that she is "engaged", nor "betrothed", "affianced", or "plighted". Though such words are not vulgarity in the vulgar sense, they nonetheless could stigmatize the user as a member of a socially inferior class. Even favored euphemisms such as toilet eventually become stigmatized like the words they replace, and currently favored words serve as a sort of "cultural capital".

The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz

  1. VULGARITY

    The conduct of others. A rolling stone gathers no moss--except at roulette. W But a stony roll always gathers the stony stare. WAITER An Inn-experienced servant.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of vulgarity in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of vulgarity in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of vulgarity in a Sentence

  1. Beate Klarsfeld:

    The Minister of the Interior of Italy, how Donald Trump is treating the immigrants, it is the same language Donald Trump is using, but are Americans against this kind of vulgarity or not ?

  2. Edith Sitwell:

    Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.

  3. June Deery:

    It is easier to satirize and laugh at the vulgarity and extroversion of the nouveau riche than at the restraint of old money perhaps, it certainly seems like the Real Housewives are often set up to be mocked. Yet some viewers still write online about admiring them, envying them, almost worshipping them.

  4. Jeb Bush:

    For the sake of our party and country, we must move to overcome the divisiveness and vulgarity Donald Trump has brought into the political arena, or we will certainly lose our chance to defeat the Democratic nominee and reverse President Obama’s failed policies, the only path that remains to nominate a Republican rather than Donald Trump is to have an open convention.

  5. Sean Higgins:

    His crassness bothers me, his vulgarity bothers me. This is going to be someone who will be our commander in chief.

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