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Genial vs Decorum - What's the difference?

genial | decorum |

As an adjective genial

is great, fantastic.

As a noun decorum is

decorum.

genial

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • friendly and cheerful
  • (especially of weather) pleasantly mild and warm
    • {{quote-Fanny Hill, part=3 , The well breath'd youth, hot-mettled, and flush with genial juices, was now fairly in for making me know my driver. }}
  • marked by genius
  • * 2003 , Laura Fermi, Gilberto Bernardini, Galileo and the Scientific Revolution , Courier Dover Publications, page 111 [http://books.google.com/books?id=qGsZ4YmjhFwC&pg=PA111&dq=genial+idea+date:1940-2009&lr=lang_en&as_brr=3&as_pt=ALLTYPES]:
    • About fifty years later, in 1675, the Danish astronomer Ole Roemer (1644-1710) had the genial idea of using astronomical rather than terrestrial distances.
  • (anatomy) genian; relating to the chin

    • Derived terms

    * congenial

    Anagrams

    * ----

    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