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decency
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun decency has 2 senses
- decency(n = noun.attribute) - the quality of conforming to standards of propriety and morality; is a kind of correctitude, properness, propriety
- decency(n = noun.attribute) - the quality of being polite and respectable; is a kind of reputability, respectability
has particulars: modestness, modesty
Derived forms adjective decent3, adjective decent6, adjective decent1
Antonym: indecency
Derived form adjective decent2
OXFORD DICTIONARY
decency, n. (pl. -ies)
1 correct and tasteful standards of behaviour as generally accepted.
2 conformity with current standards of behaviour or propriety.
3 avoidance of obscenity.
4 (in pl.) the requirements of correct behaviour.
1 correct and tasteful standards of behaviour as generally accepted.
2 conformity with current standards of behaviour or propriety.
3 avoidance of obscenity.
4 (in pl.) the requirements of correct behaviour.
Etymology
L decentia f. decere be fitting
THESAURUS
decency
accommodatingness, advantage, advantageousness, advisability, affability, agreeableness, amiability, appropriateness, assured probity, becomingness, beneficialness, benevolence, benignity, bienseance, blamelessness, ceremoniousness, character, civility, cleanness, complaisance, compliance, conformity, convenance, convenience, convention, conventional usage, conventionalism, conventionality, correctitude, correctness, custom, decencies, decorousness, decorum, delicacy, desirability, dignity, elegance, erectness, estimableness, etiquette, expedience, expediency, fairness, feasibility, felicity, fitness, fittingness, form, formality, fruitfulness, generousness, genteelness, gentility, good character, good form, goodness, graciosity, graciousness, happiness, high ideals, high principles, high-mindedness, honesty, honor, honorableness, immaculacy, integrity, irreproachability, irreproachableness, justice, justness, kindliness, kindness, meetness, modesty, moral excellence, moral strength, niceness, nobility, normality, normativeness, obligingness, opportuneness, percentage, politicness, principles, probity, profit, profitability, properness, proprieties, propriety, prudence, pudency, pudicity, pureness, purity, rectitude, reputability, respectability, righteousness, rightness, seasonableness, seemliness, shame, social convention, social usage, stainlessness, suitability, timeliness, unimpeachability, unimpeachableness, unspottedness, uprightness, upstandingness, urbanity, usefulness, virtue, virtuousness, wisdom, worthiness, worthwhilenessROGET THESAURUS
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Purity
N purity, decency, decorum, delicacy, continence, chastity, honesty, virtue, modesty, shame, pudicity, pucelage, virginity, vestal, virgin, Joseph, Hippolytus, Lucretia, Diana, prude, pure, undefiled, modest, delicate, decent, decorous, virginibus puerisque, simon-pure, chaste, continent, virtuous, honest, Platonic, virgin, unsullied, cherry, as chaste as unsunn'd snow, a soul as white as heaven, 'tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity, to the pure all things are pure.
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