Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Vulgarity

Vulgarity , noun

[Compare French vulgarité, Latin vulgaritas the multitude.]

1.
The quality or state of being vulgar; mean condition of life; the state of the lower classes of society. — Sir T. Browne
2.
Grossness or clownishness of manners of language; absence of refinement; coarseness.
The reprobate vulgarity of the frequenters of Bartholomew Fair. — B. Jonson