decency
noun
1 decency
The quality of conforming to standards of propriety and morality.
Roget 960:
purity;
decency,
decorum,
delicacy;
continence,
chastity,
honesty,
virtue,
modesty,
shame;
pudicity†,
pucelage†,
virginity.
vestal,
virgin,
Joseph,
Hippolytus;
Lucretia,
Diana;
prude.
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Dutch: deugdzaamheid, eer, eerbaarheid, eerzaamheid, kuisheid, onschuld, zedelijkheid, zedigheid
Polish: obyczajność, przyzwoitość
2 decency
The quality of being polite and respectable.
Dutch: welvoegelijkheid, welgemanierdheid, gepastheid, gemanierdheid, fatsoenlijkheid, fatsoen
Moby thesaurus: 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, worthwhileness ... show more.
decencies
Moby thesaurus: amenities, appropriateness, civilities, civility, comity, convention, correctitude, correctness, courtliness, decency, decorousness, decorum, diplomatic code, elegance, elegancies, etiquette, exquisite manners, fitness, fittingness, formalities, good form, good manners, goodness, manners, mores, natural politeness, niceness, normality, normativeness, point of etiquette, politeness, politesse, properness, proprieties, propriety, protocol, punctilio, quiet good manners, righteousness, rightness, rules of conduct, seemliness, social code, social conduct, social graces, social procedures, social usage, suitability ... show more.
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