Decency vs Humanity - What's the difference?
decency | humanity |
the quality of being decent; propriety
* Burke
* Roscommon
That which is proper or becoming.
* Atterbury
* Milton
Mankind; human beings as a group.
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The quality of being benevolent.
Humane traits of character; humane qualities or aspects.
* 1851 , (Herman Melville), (Moby Dick) ,
As nouns the difference between decency and humanity
is that decency is the quality of being decent; propriety while humanity is mankind; human beings as a group.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.
External links
* (wikipedia "decency")humanity
English
Noun
(-)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity , and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.}}
Fantasy of navigation, passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; perhaps to moralise on the oneness or fragility of the planet, or to see humanity for the small and circumscribed thing that it is; […].}}
- Think of that; by that sweet girl that old man had a child: hold ye then there can be any utter, hopeless harm in Ahab? No, no, my lad; stricken, blasted, if he be, Ahab has his humanities !”