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Decency vs Orality - What's the difference?

decency | orality |

As nouns the difference between decency and orality

is that decency is the quality of being decent; propriety while orality is the state of being oral.

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.

    orality

    English

    Noun

    (oralities)
  • The state of being oral
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