Meaning

2 senses
  1. (uncountable)The quality of being profane; quality of irreverence, of treating sacred things with contempt.

    Profanität, Respektlosigkeit, Gotteslästerlichkeit

    профана́цияprofanácija, богоху́льствоbogoxúlʹstvo

  2. (countable)Obscene, lewd or abusive language.

    He ran up and down the street screaming profanities like a madman.

    Fluch, Obszönität, Schimpfwort

    скверносло́виеskvernoslóvije, ру́ганьrúganʹ, ма́терщинаmáterščina

    лихослі́в'яlyxoslívʺja, ненормати́вна ле́ксикаnenormatývna léksyka

More definitions
  • vulgar or irreverent speech or action

Examples

25 sentences
  1. I don't like profanity.

    Я не люблю лихослів'я.

    deIch kann die Gotteslästerung nicht ausstehen.

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  2. Tom never uses profanity.

    ruТом никогда не матерится.

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  3. Tom was yelling profanities.

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  4. Digging up a corpse is profanity.

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  5. Unlike profanity, transphobia affects real people.

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Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
obscene, lewd or abusive language:
Русский
By meaning 2
quality of being profane:
obscene, lewd or abusive language:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
quality of being profane:
obscene, lewd or abusive language:

Origin

Borrowed from Latin profānitās. By surface analysis, profane + -ity.

Borrowed from Latin profānitās. By surface analysis, profane + -ity.

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