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Obscene vs Salacity - What's the difference?

obscene | salacity |

As an adjective obscene

is offensive to current standards of decency or morality.

As a noun salacity is

the state or quality of being salacious; lewdness, obscenity, bawdiness.

obscene

English

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Offensive to current standards of decency or morality
  • Lewd or lustful
  • Disgusting or repulsive
  • Beyond all reason
  • Liable to deprave or corrupt

    • Usage notes

    * The comparative obscener and superlative obscenest, though formed by valid rules for English, are less common than more obscene' and ' most obscene .

    salacity

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (uncountable) The state or quality of being salacious; lewdness, obscenity, bawdiness.
  • *, II.ii.2:
  • *:Aristotle gives instance in sparrows, which are parum vivaces ob salacitatem , short-lived because of their salacity , which is very frequent […].
  • (countable) An act which is salacious, (lewd, obscene or bawdy).