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Desecration vs Profanity - What's the difference?

desecration | profanity |

As nouns the difference between desecration and profanity

is that desecration is an act of disrespect or impiety towards something considered sacred while profanity is the quality of being profane.

desecration

English

(wikipedia desecration)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An act of disrespect or impiety towards something considered sacred.

    • Synonyms

    * blasphemy * sacrilege * profanation

    Related terms

    * desecrate

    Anagrams

    * *

    profanity

    English

    (wikipedia profanity)

    Alternative forms

    * prophanity (qualifier)

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The quality of being profane.
  • (countable) Obscene, lewd or abusive language.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author= Sam Leith
    • , volume=189, issue=1, page=37, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Where the profound meets the profane , passage=Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths. Consider for a moment the origins of almost any word we have for bad language – "profanity ", "curses", "oaths" and "swearing" itself.}}