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Decence vs Decency - What's the difference?

decence | decency |

As nouns the difference between decence and decency

is that decence is decency, seemliness while decency is the quality of being decent; propriety.

decence

English

Noun

  • (obsolete) decency
    • (Dryden)
    (Webster 1913)

    decency

    English

    Noun

  • the quality of being decent; propriety
  • * Burke
    • Observances of time, place, and of decency in general.
  • * Roscommon
    • Immodest words admit of no defence, / For want of decency is want of sense.
  • That which is proper or becoming.
  • * Atterbury
    • The external decencies of worship.
  • * Milton
    • Those thousand decencies , that daily flow / From all her words and actions.

    External links

    * (wikipedia "decency")