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Urbanity vs Elegance - What's the difference?

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Urbanity is a related term of elegance.


As nouns the difference between urbanity and elegance

is that urbanity is behaviour that is polished, refined, courteous while elegance is elegance.

urbanity

English

(wikipedia urbanity)

Noun

(urbanities)
  • Behaviour that is polished, refined, courteous.
  • * 1825 , ", The Crayon Papers ,
    • The vaunted courtesy of the old school, the smooth urbanity that prevailed in former days
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=9 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.}}
  • (in the plural) Courtesies.
  • * 1864 , ,
    • Wealdon's two little visits explained perfectly the active urbanities of Captain Stanley Lake.
  • What is characteristically urban in an area; urbanness.
  • * 1955 , C.J. Lammers, Studies in Holland flood disaster 1953 , vol. 2, p. 39,
    • , the majority of cases will differ as to "urbanity ", as most of the evacuees were rural.
  • * 1956 , Fred C. IklĂ© & Harry V. Kincaid, "Social Aspects of Wartime Evacuation of American Cities", Disaster Study , vol 4., p. 44,
    • Evacuees, the majority of whom were rural persons, reported more tensions as the urbanity of the reception community increased
    Antonyms
    * rurality

    elegance

    English

    (wikipedia elegance)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • Grace, refinement, and beauty in movement, appearance, or manners
    • The bride was elegance personified.
  • Restraint and grace of style
    • The simple dress had a quiet elegance .
  • The beauty of an idea characterized by minimalism and intuitiveness while preserving exactness and precision
    • The proof of the theorem had a pleasing elegance .
  • (countable) A refinement or luxury
  • * {{quote-book, year=1852, author=Various, title=Young Americans Abroad, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=As to the comforts and elegances of life, we have enough of them for our good. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1881, author=Isaac D'Israeli, title=Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=At Rome, when Sallust was the fashionable writer, short sentences, uncommon words, and an obscure brevity, were affected as so many elegances . }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1909, author=E. Phillips Oppenheim, title=The Governors, chapter=10, edition= citation
    • , passage=Phineas Duge

    Related terms

    * elegant