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Indelicacy vs Indecorum - What's the difference?

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Indelicacy is a related term of indecorum.


As nouns the difference between indelicacy and indecorum

is that indelicacy is (uncountable) the condition of being indelicate while indecorum is indecorous behavior, or the state of being indecorous.

indelicacy

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) The condition of being indelicate
  • (countable) An indelicate act or statement

    • 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. }} ----