Decency vs Humility - What's the difference?
decency | humility |
the quality of being decent; propriety
* Burke
* Roscommon
That which is proper or becoming.
* Atterbury
* Milton
The characteristic of being humble; humbleness in character and behavior.
As nouns the difference between decency and humility
is that decency is the quality of being decent; propriety while humility is the characteristic of being humble; humbleness in character and behavior.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.