Corteous vs Urbanity - What's the difference?
corteous | urbanity |
Behaviour that is polished, refined, courteous.
* 1825 , ", The Crayon Papers ,
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=9 (in the plural) Courtesies.
* 1864 , ,
What is characteristically urban in an area; urbanness.
* 1955 , C.J. Lammers, Studies in Holland flood disaster 1953 , vol. 2,
* 1956 , Fred C. Iklé & Harry V. Kincaid, "Social Aspects of Wartime Evacuation of American Cities", Disaster Study , vol 4.,
As a noun urbanity is
behaviour that is polished, refined, courteous.corteous
Not English
Corteous has no English definition. It may be misspelled.English words similar to 'corteous':
csardas, czardas, courteous, charities, creates, chariots, critics, cowards, curettes, curates, charades, cortices, carrots, critiques, crotchets, cardigans, crutches, corrodes, cohorts, corrades, crataegus, curtsies, cheroots, charettes, crotches, corteges, czaritsas, cowrites, charets, corridas, cortexes, cordgrass, cardias, corridos, chordees, cardies, czaritzas, charrets, caretakes, ceroids, cartages, cariads, criticks, cartways, crowdies, cardcases, crewets, cowardies, creutzers, corticous, corodies, corrodies, crowths, curiets, cerites, cardiacs, coreids, caratages, cowardes, chrootsurbanity
English
(wikipedia urbanity)Noun
(urbanities)- The vaunted courtesy of the old school, the smooth urbanity that prevailed in former days
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- Wealdon's two little visits explained perfectly the active urbanities of Captain Stanley Lake.
p. 39,
- , the majority of cases will differ as to "urbanity ", as most of the evacuees were rural.
p. 44,
- Evacuees, the majority of whom were rural persons, reported more tensions as the urbanity of the reception community increased
