About The Word Incivility
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Incivility
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What's The Definition Of Incivility?
[n] deliberate discourtesy
Synonyms | Synonyms for Incivility: Related Terms | Find terms related to Incivility: animality | bad manners | barbarism | barbarity | barbarousness | bestiality | boorishness | brutality | brutishness | caddishness | coarseness | crudeness | discourteousness | discourtesy | Gothicism | gross behavior | grossness | ill breeding | ill manners | impoliteness | inconsiderateness | indecorousness | indecorum | insensitivity | inurbanity | loutishness | mannerlessness | misbehavior | Neanderthalism | offensiveness | philistinism | rudeness | savagery | savagism | tactlessness | troglodytism | uncivilizedness | uncourtliness | uncouthness | uncultivatedness | uncultivation | unculturedness | ungallantness | ungentlemanliness | ungraciousness | unmannerliness | unpoliteness | unrefinement | unsolicitousness | vulgarity | wildness See Also | discourtesy | rudeness Incivility In Webster's Dictionary \In`ci*vil"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Incivilities}. [L.
incivilitas: cf. F. incivilit['e].]
1. The quality or state of being uncivil; want of courtesy;
rudeness of manner; impoliteness. --Shak. Tillotson.
2. Any act of rudeness or ill breeding.
Uncomely jests, loud talking and jeering, which, in
civil account, are called indecencies and
incivilities. --Jer. Taylor.
3. Want of civilization; a state of rudeness or barbarism.
[R.] --Sir W. Raleigh.
Syn: Impoliteness; uncourteousness; unmannerliness;
disrespect; rudeness; discourtesy.
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