Definizione monolingua

crudity

crudity (countable and uncountable; plural crudities)

1. (uncountable) The state of being crude.
2. A crude act or characteristic.
   • 1889, Oscar Wilde, ""The Decay Of Lying: An Observation,""

     What Art really reveals to us is Natures lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition.

3. (obsolete, medicine) Indigestion; undigested food in the stomach; badly-concocted humours.
   • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.ii.1.2:

     For there is no meat whatsoever, though otherwise wholesome and good, but if unseasonably taken, or immoderately used, more than the stomach can well bear, it will engender crudity and do much harm.

Definizione dizionario crudity

Altri significati:

(obsolete, medicine) Indigestion; undigested food in the stomach; badly-concocted humours.

A crude act or characteristic.

(uncountable) The state of being crude.