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Decency
| Decency Definition And Meaning |
What's The Definition Of Decency?
[n] the quality of being polite and respectable
[n] the quality of conforming to standards of propriety and morality
Synonyms | Synonyms for Decency:
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advantage |
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affability |
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amiability |
appropriateness |
assured probity |
becomingness |
beneficialness |
benevolence |
benignity |
bienseance |
blamelessness |
ceremoniousness |
character |
civility |
cleanness |
complaisance |
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convenance |
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convention |
conventional usage |
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correctitude |
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custom |
decencies |
decorousness |
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erectness |
estimableness |
etiquette |
expedience |
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fairness |
feasibility |
felicity |
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form |
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fruitfulness |
generousness |
genteelness |
gentility |
good character |
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goodness |
graciosity |
graciousness |
happiness |
high ideals |
high principles |
high-mindedness |
honesty |
honor |
honorableness |
immaculacy |
integrity |
irreproachability |
irreproachableness |
justice |
justness |
kindliness |
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meetness |
modesty |
moral excellence |
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niceness |
nobility |
normality |
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proprieties |
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prudence |
pudency |
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respectability |
righteousness |
rightness |
seasonableness |
seemliness |
shame |
social convention |
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timeliness |
unimpeachability |
unimpeachableness |
unspottedness |
uprightness |
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urbanity |
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virtue |
virtuousness |
wisdom |
worthiness |
worthwhileness
See Also | correctitude |
modesty |
properness |
propriety |
reputability |
respectability
Decency In Webster's Dictionary
\De"cen*cy\, n.; pl. {Decencies}. [L. decentia, fr.
decens: cf. F. d['e]cence. See {Decent}.]
1. The quality or state of being decent, suitable, or
becoming, in words or behavior; propriety of form in
social intercourse, in actions, or in discourse; proper
formality; becoming ceremony; seemliness; hence, freedom
from obscenity or indecorum; modesty.
Observances of time, place, and of decency in
general. --Burke.
Immodest words admit of no defense, For want of
decency is want of sense. --Roscommon.
2. That which is proper or becoming.
The external decencies of worship. --Atterbury.
Those thousand decencies, that daily flow From all
her words and actions. --Milton.
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