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Vulgarity

Name(s):

Animality

Barbarism

Barbarity

Baseness

Bestiality

Brutality

Coarseness

Commonness

Exclusiveness

Gaudiness

Grossness

Ignobility

Impropriety

Inappropriateness

Incivility

Indecency

Indecorum

Indelicacy

Inelegance

Loudness

Lowness

Meanness

Overconscientiousness

Oversensitiveness

Profligacy

Roughness

Rudeness

Savagery

Snobbery

Tastelessness

Unsuitability

Vileness

Vulgarity

Nature

Vulgarity is the quality of being common, coarse, or unrefined. This judgement may refer to language, visual art, social class, or social climbers. John Bayley claims the term can never be self-referential, because to be aware of vulgarity is to display a degree of sophistication which thereby elevates the subject above the vulgar.

Source: Wikipedia

Broader

Discriminative affection*complex

Narrower

Bad taste

Type

(A) Abstract fundamental problems

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The Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential is a unique, experimental research work of the Union of International Associations. It is currently published as a searchable online platform with profiles of world problems, action strategies, and human values that are interlinked in novel and innovative ways. These connections are based on a range of relationships such as broader and narrower scope, aggravation, relatedness and more. By concentrating on these links and relationships, the Encyclopedia is uniquely positioned to bring focus to the complex and expansive sphere of global issues and their interconnected nature.

The initial content for the Encyclopedia was seeded from UIA’s Yearbook of International Organizations. UIA’s decades of collected data on the enormous variety of association life provided a broad initial perspective on the myriad problems of humanity. Recognizing that international associations are generally confronting world problems and developing action strategies based on particular values, the initial content was based on the descriptions, aims, titles and profiles of international associations.

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