crassitude

[ kras-i-tood, -tyood ]

noun

1. gross ignorance or stupidity.
2. thickness; grossness.

Word History and Origins

Origin of crassitude¹

1400–50; late Middle English (< Middle French ) < Latin crassitūdō thickness. See crass, -i-, -tude

Example Sentences

But to lead anything on a large scale, without a continual winding-up by his companion, the fibrous Mrs. Romulus, was beyond the crassitude of Stellato's pursy nature.

From Project Gutenberg

There are three things that no man but a fool lends, or, having lent, is not in the most helpless state of mental crassitude if he ever hopes to get back again.

From Project Gutenberg

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