Crasis vs Crass - What's the difference?
crasis | crass |
(obsolete) One's constitution; the balance of humours in a person's body.
*, I.iii.1.2:
*:Some men have peculiar symptoms, according to their temperament and crasis , which they had from the stars and those celestial influences
* 1759 , Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman , Penguin 2003, p. 24:
A mixture or combination.
(linguistics) The contraction of a vowel or diphthong at the end of a word with a vowel or diphthong at the start of the following word.
* 1861 , William Edward Jelf, Accidence
coarse; crude; not refined or sensible
* 2002 , ,
materialistic
dense
As a noun crasis
is one's constitution; the balance of humours in a person's body.As an adjective crass is
coarse; crude; not refined or sensible.crasis
English
Noun
(crases) (wikipedia crasis)- This is all that ever stagger'd my faith in regard to Yorick''’s extraction, who, by what I can remember of him, and by all the accounts I could ever get of him, seem'd not to have had one single drop of ''Danish blood in his whole crasis
- When in a crasis , a lene consonant
crass
English
Adjective
(er)- You guys would rather be with someone else who’s equal to your status in life. Tiger Woods, or somebody. I comes across as crass , a Neanderthal, a babbling idiot sometimes. I like to show you that person. I like that person. [...]