Profanity vs Impiousness - What's the difference?
profanity | impiousness | Related terms |
(uncountable) The quality of being profane.
(countable) Obscene, lewd or abusive language.
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Profanity is a related term of impiousness.
As nouns the difference between profanity and impiousness
is that profanity is (uncountable) the quality of being profane while impiousness is of being impious.profanity
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(wikipedia profanity)Alternative forms
* prophanity (qualifier)Noun
Sam Leith
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.}}
