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Gentility vs Decency - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between gentility and decency

is that gentility is (uncountable) the state of being elegant, genteel, having good breeding, or being socially superior while decency is the quality of being decent; propriety.

gentility

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) The state of being elegant, genteel, having good breeding, or being socially superior.
  • The upper classes, the gentry.

    • 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.

    External links

    * (wikipedia "decency")