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Decorum vs Etiquette - What's the difference?

decorum | etiquette |

Etiquette is a synonym of decorum.



As nouns the difference between decorum and etiquette

is that decorum is appropriate social behavior; propriety while etiquette is the forms required by good breeding, or prescribed by authority, to be observed in social or official life; observance of the proprieties of rank and occasion; conventional decorum; ceremonial code of polite society.

decorum

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) Appropriate social behavior; propriety
  • * 2010 — , This Isn't What It Looks Like , ch. 4
    • It was sort of a finishing school. You know, to teach proper social decorum and so on and so forth.
  • (countable) A convention of social behavior

    • Related terms

    * decorous

    etiquette

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The forms required by good breeding, or prescribed by authority, to be observed in social or official life; observance of the proprieties of rank and occasion; conventional decorum; ceremonial code of polite society.
  • The customary behavior of members of a profession, business, law, or sports team towards each other.
  • * 2012 , July 15. Richard Williams in Guardian Unlimited, Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track
    • Cycling's complex etiquette contains an unwritten rule that riders in contention for a race win should not be penalised for sheer misfortune.
  • A label used to indicate that a letter is to be sent by airmail.

    • Quotations

    * 1885 , *: If you think we are worked by strings, / Like a Japanese marionette, / You don't understand these things / It is simply Court etiquette . * 2001 , Eric R. Wolf, Sydel Silverman, Aram A. Yengoyan, Pathways of Power: Building an Anthropology of the Modern World , page 182 *: These then influence other groups, who recut and reshape their patterns of interpersonal etiquettes to fit those utilized by the tone-setting group.

    Related terms

    * etiquettal * jetiquette * netiquette