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grossness
[grohs] 
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grossness
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | obscenity |
| Synonyms: | abomination, affront, atrocity, bawdiness, blight, blueness, coarseness, curse, dirtiness, dirty name, dirty word, evil, filthiness, foulness, four-letter word, immodesty, impropriety, impurity, indecency, indelicacy, lewdness, licentiousness, lubrici |
| Main Entry: | brutality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cruel treatment |
| Synonyms: | atrocity, barbarism, barbarity, bloodthirstiness, brutishness, choke hold, cruelty, ferocity, fierceness, grossness, inhumanity, ruthlessness, sadism, savageness, savagery, third degree, unfeelingness, viciousness |
| Antonyms: | gentleness, humaneness, kindness, niceness |
| Main Entry: | deformity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disfigurement, distortion |
| Synonyms: | aberration, abnormality, asymmetry, buckle, contortion, corruption, crookedness, damage, defacement, defect, depravity, evil, grossness, hideousness, impairment, injury, irregularity, knot, malconformation, malformation, misproportion, misshape, misshapenness, repulsiveness, ugliness, unattractiveness, unnaturalness, unsightliness, warp |
| Antonyms: | beauty, grace, shapeliness |
| Main Entry: | enormity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | horribleness |
| Synonyms: | abomination, atrociousness, atrocity, crime, depravity, disgrace, evil, evilness, flagrancy, grossness, heinousness, horror, monstrosity, monstrousness, nefariousness, outrage, outrageousness, rankness, turpitude, vice, viciousness, vileness, villainy, wickedness |
| Notes: | enormity is the quality of extreme wickedness while enormousness is unusual largeness in size or extent |
| Antonyms: | goodness |
| Main Entry: | fatness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overweight |
| Synonyms: | adiposity, breadth, bulkiness, corpulence, distension, flab, flesh, fleshiness, girth, grossness, heaviness, heftiness, inflation, largeness, obesity, plumpness, portliness, protuberance, pudginess, rotundity, size, stoutness, tumidity, weight |
| Antonyms: | skinniness, slimness, thinness, underweight |
| Main Entry: | indecency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | obscenity, vulgarity |
| Synonyms: | bawdiness, coarseness, crudity, drunkenness, evil, foulness, grossness, immodesty, impropriety, impurity, incivility, indecorum, indelicacy, lewdness, licentiousness, offense, outrageousness, pornography, ribaldry, smuttiness, unseemliness, vileness |
| Antonyms: | chastity, cleanness, decency, modesty, purity, virtue |
| Main Entry: | lewdness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indecency |
| Synonyms: | boorishness, brutishness, carnality, coarseness, concupiscence, corruptness, debauchery, depravity, dirtiness, dissoluteness, eroticism, erotism, evil, evilness, fleshliness, grossness, impurity, incontinence, incontinency, lasciviousness, lecherousness, lechery, libidinousness, licentiousness, lubricity, lustfulness, obscenity, pederasty, pornography, prurience, pruriency, raunchiness, ribaldry, ruttishness, salaciousness, salacity, satyriasis, scurrility, smut, smuttiness, unchastity, vileness, villainy, voluptuousness, vulgarity, wantonness, wickedness |
| Antonyms: | continency, decency, modesty |
| Main Entry: | rudeness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | impoliteness |
| Synonyms: | acrimony, asperity, audacity, bad manners, barbarity, bluntness, boldness, boorishness, brass, cheek, coarseness, crudeness, crudity, discourtesy, disdain, disrespect, effrontery, grossness, harshness, impertinence, impudence, incivility, insolence, intrusiveness, irritability, misbehavior, nerve*, officiousness, shamelessness, sharpness, tactlessness, ungraciousness, unkindness, unmannerliness, vulgarity |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | vulgarity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | coarseness |
| Synonyms: | crassness, crudity, discourtesy, filthiness, foulness, grossness, indecency, lewdness, obscenity, profaneness, profanity, rudeness |
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