profanity

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: pro=fan=i=ty

CIDE DICTIONARY

profanity, n. [L. profanitas.].

•  The quality or state of being profane; profaneness; irreverence; esp., the use of profane language; blasphemy.  [1913 Webster]
•  That which is profane; profane language or acts.  [1913 Webster]

  "The brisk interchange of profanity and folly."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

profanity, n. (pl. -ies)
1 a profane act.
2 profane language; blasphemy.

Etymology

LL profanitas (as PROFANE)

THESAURUS

profanity

bad language, billingsgate, blasphemousness, blasphemy, blue language, colorful language, cursing, cussing, desecration, dirty language, dirty talk, dysphemism, evil speaking, execration, filth, filthy language, foul language, impiety, imprecation, obscenity, profanation, profane swearing, profaneness, reprobation, ribaldry, sacrilege, sacrilegiousness, scatology, strong language, swearing, unblessedness, unhallowedness, unholiness, unparliamentary language, unregenerateness, unrepeatable expressions, unsacredness, unsanctitude, unsanctity, vile language, vulgar language

ROGET THESAURUS

profanity

Impiety

N impiety, sin, irreverence, profaneness, profanity, profanation, blasphemy, desecration, sacrilege, scoffing, hypocrisy, pietism, cant, pious fraud, lip devotion, lip service, lip reverence, misdevotion, formalism, austerity, sanctimony, sanctimoniousness, pharisaism, precisianism, sabbatism, sabbatarianism, odium theologicum, sacerdotalism, bigotry blue laws, hardening, backsliding, declension, perversion, reprobation, sinner, scoffer, blasphemer, sacrilegist, sabbath breaker, worldling, hypocrite, Tartufe, Mawworm, bigot, saint, Pharisee, sabbatarian, formalist, methodist, puritan, pietist, precisian, religionist, devotee, ranter, fanatic, juramentado, the wicked, the evil, the unjust, the reprobate, sons of men, sons of Belial, the wicked one, children of darkness, impious, irreligious, desecrating, profane, irreverent, sacrilegious, blasphemous, un-hallowed, un-sanctified, un-regenerate, hardened, perverted, reprobate, hypocritical, canting, pietistical, sanctimonious, unctuous, pharisaical, overrighteous, righteous over much, bigoted, fanatical, priest-ridden, under the mask of religion, under the cloak of religion, under the pretense of religion, under the form of religion, under the guise of religion, giovane santo diavolo vecchio.