About The Word Indecency

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Indecency

Indecency Meaning & Definition
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

\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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