vulgarity Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the quality of lacking taste and refinement
    coarseness; commonness; raunch; vulgarism; grossness.

WordNet

Vul*gar"i*ty noun
Etymology
Cf. F. vulgarité, L. vulgaritas the multitude.
Definitions
  1. The quality or state of being vulgar; mean condition of life; the state of the lower classes of society. Sir T. Browne.
  2. Grossness or clownishness of manners of language; absence of refinement; coarseness.
    The reprobate vulgarity of the frequenters of Bartholomew Fair. B. Jonson.

Webster 1913