obscenity

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Something that is obscene. countable
    — Martha wouldn't go into the art museum because, as she put it, "They have obscenities just sitting out, on display!"
  2. An act of obscene behaviour. countable
    — Bestiality was outlawed as an obscenity in the strongly conservative community.
  3. Specifically, an offensive word; a profanity; a dirty word. countable
    — Eliza couldn't stand her daughter's music; as she saw it, it was just shouted obscenities and a heavy drum beat.
  4. Lewdness, indecency, or offensive behaviour or material. uncountable
    — The coalition of religious conservatives was campaigning against, in their view, rampant obscenity in the entertainment industry.
  5. The fact of being obscene. uncountable
    — 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.

词形变化

obscenities plural

词汇关系

衍生词
antiobscenity

词源

From obscene + -ity, from Latin obscenitas.
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