profanity, language that is considered socially offensive due to being vulgar, obscene, or irreverent.The term profanity is often used in a religious sense to refer to language that is blasphemous, sacrilegious, or sometimes merely secular.In a broader sense, profanity is often referred to as expletives, swearing, oaths, cursing, or cussing and by a variety of euphemisms, including four-letter ...