vulgarism vs bawdy

vulgarism and bawdy both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
vulgarism	Yes	No	No	No
bawdy	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, bawdy is a hyponym of vulgarism; that is, bawdy is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than vulgarism:

Other hyponyms of vulgarism include bawdry, scatology.

vulgarism (noun)	bawdy (noun)
the quality of lacking taste and refinement	lewd or obscene talk or writing
an offensive or indecent word or phrase

vulgarism (adjective)	bawdy (adjective)
	humorously vulgar