decorum
noun
1 decorum
Propriety in manners and conduct.
synonym: decorousness.
Roget 926:
duty,
what ought to be done,
moral obligation,
accountableness†,
liability,
onus,
responsibility;
bounden duty,
imperative duty;
call,
call of duty;
accountability.
allegiance,
fealty,
tie engagement
etc.
(promise)
768;
part;
function,
calling
etc.
(business)
625.
morality,
morals,
decalogue;
case of conscience;
conscientiousness
etc.
(probity)
939;
conscience,
inward monitor,
still small voice within,
sense of duty,
tender conscience,
superego;
the hell within
[Paradise Lost].
dueness
etc.
924;
propriety,
fitness,
seemliness,
amenability,
decorum,
to prepon;
the thing,
the proper thing;
the right thing to do,
the proper thing to do.
[Science of morals]
ethics,
ethology. ;
deontology†,
aretology†;
moral philosophy,
ethical philosophy;
casuistry,
polity.
observance,
fulfillment,
discharge,
performance,
acquittal,
satisfaction,
redemption;
good behavior.
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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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Roget 852:
fashion,
style,
ton,
bon ton†,
society;
good society,
polite society;
monde [Fr.];
drawing-room,
civilized life,
civilization,
town,
beau monde [Fr.],
high life,
court;
world;
fashionable world,
gay world;
Vanity Fair;
show
etc.
(ostentation)
822.
manners,
breeding
etc.
(politeness)
894;
air,
demeanor
etc.
(appearance)
448;
savoir faire [Fr.];
gentlemanliness†,
gentility,
decorum,
propriety,
biens_eance [Fr.];
conventions of society;
Mrs.
Grundy;
punctilio;
form,
formality;
etiquette,
point of etiquette;
dress
etc.
225.
custom
etc.
613;
mode,
vogue,
go;
rage
etc.
(desire)
865;
prevailing taste;
fad,
trend,
bandwagon,
furore†,
thing,
in thing,
craze,
chic,
last word.
man of fashion,
woman of fashion,
man of the world,
woman of the world;
height of fashion,
pink of fashion,
star of fashion,
glass of fashion,
leader of fashion;
arbiter elegantiarum [Lat.]
etc.
(taste)
850;
the beautiful people,
the fashion set,
upper ten thousand
etc.
(nobility)
875;
elite
etc.
(distinction)
873;
smart set;
the four hundred [U.S.];
in crowd.
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Dutch: etiquette
Polish: dekorum, decorum
Moby thesaurus: amenities, appropriateness, becomingness, bienseance, ceremoniousness, civilities, civility, comity, conformity, convenance, convention, conventional usage, conventionalism, conventionality, correctitude, correctness, courtliness, custom, decencies, decency, decorousness, delicacy, deportment, dignity, diplomatic code, elegance, elegancies, etiquette, exquisite manners, felicity, fitness, fittingness, form, formalities, formality, genteelness, gentility, good form, good manners, goodness, happiness, mannerliness, manners, meetness, modesty, mores, natural politeness, niceness, normality, normativeness, order, orderliness, point of etiquette, politeness, politesse, properness, proprieties, propriety, protocol, pudency, pudicity, punctilio, quiet good manners, respectability, righteousness, rightness, rules of conduct, seemliness, shame, social code, social conduct, social convention, social graces, social procedures, social usage, solemnity, suitability, urbanity, usage ... show more.
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