Usually means: Offensive language violating social norms.
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  1. profanity: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. profanity: Merriam-Webster
  3. profanity: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. profanity: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. profanity: Collins English Dictionary
  6. profanity: Vocabulary.com
  7. Profanity, profanity: Wordnik
  8. profanity: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. profanity: Wiktionary
  10. profanity: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. profanity: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. profanity: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Profanity, profanity: Dictionary.com
  14. profanity: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Profanity (instant messaging client), Profanity: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Profanity: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. profanity: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. profanity: Rhymezone
  19. Profanity: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. profanity: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. PROFANITY: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. profanity: FreeDictionary.org
  23. profanity: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. profanity: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. profanity: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Profanity: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  (uncountable) The quality of being profane; quality of irreverence, of treating sacred things with contempt.
▸ noun:  (countable) Obscene, lewd or abusive language.

Similar:
profaneness, vulgarity, blasphemousness, impiety, obscenity, irreverence, foulmouthedness, contemptuosity, impiousness, sacrilegiousness, more...

Opposite:
blasphemy, sacrilege, sacrilegious

Phrases:
Spanish profanity, Tagalog profanity, Cantonese profanity, Quebec French profanity, Japanese profanity, more...

Adjectives:
such, much, mild, little, excessive, usual, loud, picturesque, occasional, awful, open

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Similar:
profaneness, vulgarity, blasphemousness, impiety, obscenity, irreverence, foulmouthedness, contemptuosity, impiousness, sacrilegiousness, more...

Opposite:
blasphemy, sacrilege, sacrilegious

Phrases:
Spanish profanity, Tagalog profanity, Cantonese profanity, Quebec French profanity, Japanese profanity, Korean profanity, Mandarin Chinese profanity, Finnish profanity, Dutch profanity, Polish profanity, more...

Adjectives:
such, much, mild, little, excessive, usual, loud, picturesque, occasional, awful, open

Colors:
    red,     black,     dark gray,     deep purple,     maroon, more...



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