different between crasis vs crass

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (krâsis, “mixture”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?e?s?s/

Noun

crasis (countable and uncountable, plural crases)

1. (obsolete) One's constitution; the balance of humours in a person's body.
   • , I.iii.1.2:

     Some men have peculiar symptoms, according to their temperament and crasis, which they had from the stars and those celestial influences […]

   • 1759, Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Penguin 2003, p. 24:

     This is all that ever stagger'd my faith in regard to Yorick’s extraction, who, by what I can remember of him, and by all the accounts I could ever get of him, seem'd not to have had one single drop of Danish blood in his whole crasis

2. A mixture or combination.
3. (linguistics) External vowel sandhi; contraction of a vowel or diphthong at the end of a word with a vowel or diphthong at the start of the following word.

Translations

Anagrams

• ACRISS, Sarics, crissa

English

Etymology

From Middle English cras, craas, from Old French cras, from Latin crassus (“dense, thick, gross, fat, heavy”). Doublet of grease.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /k?æs/
• Rhymes: -æs

Adjective

crass (comparative crasser, superlative crassest)

1. coarse; crude; unrefined or insensitive; lacking discrimination
   • 2002, Mike Tyson to the Media,

     You guys would rather be with someone else who’s equal to your status in life. Tiger Woods, or somebody. I comes across as crass, a Neanderthal, a babbling idiot sometimes. I like to show you that person. I like that person.

2. materialistic
3. dense
4. Lacking finesse; crude and obvious.

Antonyms

• (coarse; crude; not refined, insensitive): delicate, sensitive, refined

Derived terms

• crassly
• crassness

Translations

Anagrams

• csars, scars