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profanity

Socially offensive form of language

EntityusageQ184439

Also known as kakologos · foul language · insult · strong language · swear word · bad word

Instance of: usage
Subclass of: name calling
, word or phrase
, meaning

Overview

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Profanity, also known as swearing, cursing, or cussing, is the usage of notionally offensive words for a variety of purposes, including to demonstrate disrespect or negativity, to relieve pain, to express a strong emotion, as a grammatical intensifier or emphasis, or to express informality or conversational intimacy. In many formal or polite social situations, it is considered impolite, and in some religious groups it is considered a sin. Profanity includes slurs, but most profanities are not slurs, and there are many insults that do not use swear words.

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47 statements · 19% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations

Different from: vulgar
pejorative
hate speech
promise
swear words
Permanent duplicated item: Q135099787
Depicts: sexual intercourse
sex organ
excrement
blasphemy
Has use: filler
insult
name calling

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25 identifiers linking profanity across the web's reference databases

Data quality

statements

19%

externally sourced

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AIDB. (2026). profanity (Q184439). Retrieved from https://aidb.si/e/profanity-Q184439