Other forms: vulgarities
Vulgarity is coarseness that offends against good taste. The vulgarity of it, sink to vulgarity, sheer vulgarity.
The judgement is as much about class as about language, since the Latin behind it simply means the common people. That history is why calling something vulgarity says as much about the speaker as the thing.
1nounvulgarityCoarseness that offends against good taste.
“Her parents were shocked by the vulgarity of the song's lyrics.”
vulgarity is a coarseness.
Latin vulgaritas comes from vulgus, the common people.
Latin
vulgaritas
English, today
vulgarity
From vulgar + ity, from Latin vulgaritas.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA