Obscenity /(?)/

Ob·scen·i·ty

Obscenity

n.

pl. Obscenities

  1. That quality in words or things which presents what is offensive to chastity or purity of mind; obscene or impure lanquage or acts; moral impurity; lewdness; obsceneness; as, the obscenity of a speech, or a picture.
    Mr. Cowley asserts plainly, that obscenity has no place in wit.
    No pardon vile obscenity should find.