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Decorum vs Legitimacy - What's the difference?

decorum | legitimacy |

As nouns the difference between decorum and legitimacy

is that decorum is decorum while legitimacy is the quality of being legitimate or valid; validity.

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

    legitimacy

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • the quality of being legitimate or valid; validity

    • Synonyms

    * legitimateness (much less common)