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Indecency

Indecency Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Indecency? [n] an indecent or improper act [n] the quality of being indecent Synonyms \| Synonyms for Indecency: impropriety Related Terms \| Find terms related to Indecency: andromania \| aphrodisia \| Babbittry \| bad taste \| biological urge \| bodily appetite \| bourgeois taste \| camp \| campiness \| carnal desire \| concupiscence \| desire \| eromania \| eroticism \| eroticomaniac \| erotism \| erotomania \| fleshly lust \| furor uterinus \| goatishness \| gynecomania \| high camp \| horniness \| hot blood \| hot pants \| impropriety \| impurity \| inappropriateness \| indecorousness \| indecorum \| indelicacy \| inelegance \| inelegancy \| infantile sexuality \| itch \| kitsch \| lasciviousness \| libidinousness \| low camp \| lust \| lustfulness \| maculacy \| nymphomania \| passion \| philistinism \| polymorphous perversity \| poor taste \| pop \| pop culture \| prurience \| pruriency \| satyriasis \| satyrism \| sexual desire \| sexual longing \| sexual passion \| soiledness \| sulliedness \| taintedness \| tastelessness \| unaestheticism \| unaestheticness \| unbecomingness \| unchasteness \| unchastity \| uncleanliness \| uncleanness \| unfittingness \| unseemliness \| unsuitability \| unsuitableness \| unvirtuousness \| venereal appetite \| vulgar taste \| vulgarism \| vulgarity \| vulgarness See Also \| bawdiness \| enormity \| immodesty \| improperness \| impropriety \| lewdness \| misbehavior \| misbehaviour \| misdeed \| obscenity \| obscenity \| outrageousness \| salaciousness \| salacity Indecency In Webster's Dictionary \Inde"cency\, n.; pl. {Indecencies}. [L. indecentia unseemliness: cf. F. ind['e]cence.] 1. The quality or state of being indecent; want of decency, modesty, or good manners; obscenity. 2. That which is indecent; an indecent word or act; an offense against delicacy. They who, by speech or writing, present to the ear or the eye of modesty any of the indecencies I allude to, are pests of society. --Beattie. Syn: Indelicacy; indecorum; immodesty; impurity; obscenity. See {Indecorum}.

Indecency Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Indecency?

[n] an indecent or improper act
[n] the quality of being indecent

Synonyms | Synonyms for Indecency: impropriety

Indecency In Webster's Dictionary

\In*de"cen*cy\, n.; pl. {Indecencies}. [L. indecentia
unseemliness: cf. F. ind['e]cence.]
1. The quality or state of being indecent; want of decency,
   modesty, or good manners; obscenity.

2. That which is indecent; an indecent word or act; an
   offense against delicacy.

         They who, by speech or writing, present to the ear
         or the eye of modesty any of the indecencies I
         allude to, are pests of society.      --Beattie.

Syn: Indelicacy; indecorum; immodesty; impurity; obscenity.
     See {Indecorum}.

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