profaneness
Crude speech quality
Profaneness is the quality of being profane—showing disrespect for sacred things, or being coarse and irreverent in speech.
The word covers both religious irreverence and general vulgarity: The profaneness of his language shocked the congregation.
Less common than profanity, which has largely replaced it.
Violating something sacred
- impietyIrreverence toward the divine
- heresyBelief opposing official doctrine
- irreligionAbsence of faith
- godlessnessLack of belief
defilement · apostasy · curse · iconoclasm · anathema · ungodliness · sinfulness · wickedness
Indecent word or act
- crudenessLack of sophistication
- lewdnessCrude sexual indecency
- coarsenessRough or vulgar quality
- foulnessOffensive, corrupt quality
indecency · ribaldry · smut · filthiness · expletives · swearing · cussing · bawdiness
Bold, offensive disrespect
- contemptDisdainful disregard
- derisionContemptuous mockery
- scornHostile dismissive feeling
- disdainScornful disregard
mockery · rudeness · impertinence · incivility · disparagement · belittlement · impudence · sarcasm
desecration
Violating something sacred
- impietyIrreverence toward the divine
- heresyBelief opposing official doctrine
- irreligionAbsence of faith
godlessness · defilement · apostasy · curse · iconoclasm · anathema · ungodliness · sinfulness · wickedness · transgression
obscenity
Indecent word or act
- crudenessLack of sophistication
- lewdnessCrude sexual indecency
- coarsenessRough or vulgar quality
foulness · indecency · ribaldry · smut · filthiness · expletives · swearing · cussing · bawdiness · raunchiness
insolence
Bold, offensive disrespect
disdain · mockery · rudeness · impertinence · incivility · disparagement · belittlement · impudence · sarcasm · taunting
- impietyungodliness, unholiness, blasphemy, godlessness, irreligion
profanenessvirtue
Moral goodness or merit
decency · propriety · righteousness · respectability · uprightness
profanenessrefinement
Elegance of manner
civility · politeness · decorum · propriety · cleanness
profane, profanity, sacrilege, irreverence, profanation, profaned, profaning, profanes, profanities