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Impertinence vs Indecorum - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between impertinence and indecorum

is that impertinence is lack of pertinence; irrelevance while indecorum is indecorous behavior, or the state of being indecorous.

impertinence

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) Lack of pertinence; irrelevance.
  • (countable) An instance of this; a moment of being impertinent.
  • (uncountable) The fact or character of being out of place; inappropriateness.
  • insolence.

    • indecorum

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Indecorous behavior, or the state of being indecorous
  • * {{quote-book, year=1823, author=Charles Lamb, title=The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Vol. 6), chapter=Letter 305, edition= citation
    • , passage=I hope your eyes are better, but if you must spare them, there is nothing in my pages which a Lady may not read aloud without indecorum , which is more than can be said of Shakspeare . }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1917, author=Douglas Fairbanks, title=Laugh and Live, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=This will be done decently and in good order--our training will admit of no indecorum . }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1921, author=Lytton Strachey, title=Queen Victoria, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Not only were its central personages the patterns of propriety, but no breath of scandal, no shadow of indecorum , might approach its utmost boundaries. }} ----