Civility vs Decency - What's the difference?
civility | decency |
Politeness]]; courtesy; an individual act or a manner of [[behave, behaving which conforms to social conventions of propriety.
* Chesterfield
(obsolete) The state of society in which the relations and duties of a citizen are recognized and obeyed; civilization.
* Sir J. Davies
(obsolete) A civil office, or a civil process.
* Latimer
the quality of being decent; propriety
* Burke
* Roscommon
That which is proper or becoming.
* Atterbury
* Milton
As nouns the difference between civility and decency
is that civility is politeness; courtesy; an individual act or a manner of behaving which conforms to social conventions of propriety while decency is the quality of being decent; propriety.civility
English
(wikipedia civility)Noun
- The insolent civility of a proud man is, if possible, more shocking than his rudeness could be.
- Monarchies have risen from barbarism to civility , and fallen again to ruin.
- To serve in a civility .
decency
English
Noun
- Observances of time, place, and of decency in general.
- Immodest words admit of no defence, / For want of decency is want of sense.
- The external decencies of worship.
- Those thousand decencies , that daily flow / From all her words and actions.