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Refinement vs Decency - What's the difference?

refinement | decency |

As nouns the difference between refinement and decency

is that refinement is the act, or the result of refining; the removal of impurities, or a purified material while decency is the quality of being decent; propriety.

refinement

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act, or the result of refining; the removal of impurities, or a purified material
  • High-class style; cultivation.
  • A fine or subtle distinction.
  • 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.