Urbanity vs Urbanite - What's the difference?
urbanity | urbanite |
Behaviour that is polished, refined, courteous.
* 1825 , ", The Crayon Papers ,
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=9 (in the plural) Courtesies.
* 1864 , ,
What is characteristically urban in an area; urbanness.
* 1955 , C.J. Lammers, Studies in Holland flood disaster 1953 , vol. 2,
* 1956 , Fred C. Iklé & Harry V. Kincaid, "Social Aspects of Wartime Evacuation of American Cities", Disaster Study , vol 4.,
Someone who lives in a city or similar urban area.
One of a demographic class of young, socially-conscious, urban professionals.
Rock-like recycled building material from man-made sources.
* 2002 , Joseph F. Kennedy, The Art of Natural Building , ISBN 9780865714335,
As nouns the difference between urbanity and urbanite
is that urbanity is behaviour that is polished, refined, courteous while urbanite is urbanity.urbanity
English
(wikipedia urbanity)Noun
(urbanities)- The vaunted courtesy of the old school, the smooth urbanity that prevailed in former days
citation, passage=Eustace gaped at him in amazement. When his urbanity dropped away from him, as now, he had an innocence of expression which was almost infantile. It was as if the world had never touched him at all.}}
- Wealdon's two little visits explained perfectly the active urbanities of Captain Stanley Lake.
p. 39,
- , the majority of cases will differ as to "urbanity ", as most of the evacuees were rural.
p. 44,
- Evacuees, the majority of whom were rural persons, reported more tensions as the urbanity of the reception community increased
Antonyms
* ruralityurbanite
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
(wikipedia urbanite)Noun
(en noun)p. 107:
- In Eugene, Oregon, Rob Bolman received a building permit for a straw bale house with a foundation made of stacked urbanite with a cement-sand mortar and a poured concrete bond beam on top.