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Profanity

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 (such as anger, excitement, or surprise), as a grammatical intensifier or emphasis, or to express informality or conversational…

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Nodes207
Edges206
Triples426
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.009662
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related to References · 93
Profanity → Abusive Swearing, Adam, An Encyclopedia, An Expectancy Violations Theory, Are There Universal Patterns, Beers Fägersten, Behaviour, Brain Research Reviews, Catherine, Communication Reports, Context, Cross-Cultural Linguistic Study, Cross-Linguistic Universalities, Culture, Cummings, Dagmara, Danette Ifert, Danuta, English-speaking World, Ethnic Slurs
related to Further reading · 82
Profanity → Adam, Almond, America, An English-Hindi Dictionary, An Introduction, Archived, Avery, Bad Language, Bill, Bryson, Camille, Chand, Croom, Cursing, Cuss ControlRoache, Derrida, Dirty WordsSheidlower, Eggert, English, Expletive Deleted
related to Christianity · 32
Profanity → Apostle, Bible, Christian's, Christians, Church, Church Father, Colossians, Corinthians, Deuterocanon/Apocrypha, Don't, Eastern Orthodox Church, Ephesians, God, God's, James, Jesus, John Chrysostom, Let, Lord, Matthew
related to Anatomy and sexuality · 24
Profanity → Certain, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Many, Penile, Polish, Portuguese, Profanities, Reference, Russian, Some, Spanish, Such, Swedish, Terms, The
related to India · 18
Profanity → All India Bakchod, Bollywood, Congress, Gaali, Hindi, In February, In January, In May, India, Indian, Indian Prime Minister Narendra, It, Modi, Mumbai, Mumbai-based, Sections, Swachh Bharat Mission, Using
related to Etymology and definitions · 17
Profanity → American English, Canadian French, Cursing, Danish, English, Equivalents, French, In English, Italian, Latin, Middle English, Norwegian, Swedish, The, This, United States, Various
related to Other subjects · 17
Profanity → Aboriginal Australian, Asian, Cantonese, Danish, Death, English, Germanic, Illness, Mandarin, Norwegian, Pokkers, Profane, Russian, Terminology, The, These, Western
related to Subjects · 17
Profanity → Anatomical, Common, Dios, Dutch, English, God, Languages, Literal, Other, Polish, Profanities, Puta Virgen, The, The Spanish, Though, Virgin, Words
see also · 15
Profanity → Animal, Beep, Censored, Container, Distinction, Exchange, Expression, Form, InternetSexual, Name, Problem, Research, Script, Speech, Terms
related to Italy · 12
Profanity → Adda, Any, As, Brignano Gera, For, God, Italian, Italy, July, Mary, Some, Until

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swearing used words profane use language english may terms swear languages often profanities public like including common also doi considered

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Profanityis amost common way to express taboo ideas0.90text
excrementinstance ofThis includes words0.80text
copulate in Englishinstance ofThis includes words0.80text
which are not typically invoked as swearsinstance ofThis includes words0.80text
Satan because of these historical fears.Religions commonly develop derogatory words for those who are not among their membersinstance ofMany cultures have taboos about speaking the names of evil creatures0.80text
Godinstance ofSecularization in the Western world has seen exclamations0.80text
Cantoneseinstance ofDeath is another common theme in Asian languages0.80text
idiotinstance ofwith terms0.80text
retard challenging one's mental competency.Profane phrases directed at the listener's mother exist across numerous major languagesinstance ofwith terms0.80text
though it is absent from Germanic languages with the exception of Englishinstance ofwith terms0.80text
gayinstance ofThis can apply to both profane terms such as kike or non-profane terms0.80text
hand gestures may be considered profaneinstance ofobscene non-verbal acts0.80text

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