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profaneness
[pruh-feyn, proh-] 
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profaneness
[pruh-feyn, proh-]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | obscenity |
| Synonyms: | X-rating, abomination, affront, atrocity, bawdiness, blight, blueness, coarseness, curse, dirtiness, dirty name, dirty word, evil, filthiness, foulness, four-letter word, grossness, immodesty, impropriety, impurity, indecency, indelicacy, lewdness, licentiousness, lubricity, offense, outrage, porn, pornography, profanity, prurience, salacity, scatology, scurrility, scurrilousness, sleaze, smut, smuttiness, suggestiveness, swearword, vileness, vulgarity, vulgarness, wrong |
| Main Entry: | profanity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | foul language |
| Synonyms: | abuse, blasphemy, curse, cursing, cuss, cuss word, dirty language, dirty name, dirty word, execration, four-letter word, impiety, imprecation, irreverence, malediction, no-no, obscenity, profaneness, sacrilege, swearing, swearword, taboo |
| Antonyms: | clean language |
| Main Entry: | sacrilege |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | irreverence |
| Synonyms: | blasphemy, crime, curse, desecration, heresy, impiety, mockery, offense, profanation, profaneness, profanity, sin, violation |
| Antonyms: | piety, respect, reverence |
| Main Entry: | vulgarity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | coarseness |
| Synonyms: | crassness, crudity, discourtesy, filthiness, foulness, grossness, indecency, lewdness, obscenity, profaneness, profanity, rudeness |
| Main Entry: | bawdiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | obscenity |
| Synonyms: | coarseness, dirtiness, filthiness, foulness, grossness, lewdness, profaneness, profanity, scurrility, scurrilousness, smuttiness, vulgarity, vulgarness |
| Main Entry: | dirtiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | obscenity |
| Synonyms: | bawdiness, coarseness, filthiness, foulness, indecency, lewdness, profaneness, profanity, salaciousness, smuttiness, vulgarity, vulgarness |
| Main Entry: | filthiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | obscenity |
| Synonyms: | bawdiness, coarseness, dirtiness, foulness, indecency, lewdness, profaneness, profanity, salaciousness, smuttiness, vulgarity, vulgarness |
| Main Entry: | foulness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | obscenity |
| Synonyms: | bawdiness, coarseness, dirtiness, filthiness, indecency, lewdness, profaneness, profanity, salaciousness, smuttiness, vulgarity, vulgarness |
| Main Entry: | profanation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sacrilege |
| Synonyms: | blasphemy, crime, curse, desecration, heresy, impiety, mockery, offense, profaneness, profanity, sin, violation |
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