'Decency' definitions:
Definition of 'decency'
From: WordNet
noun
The quality of conforming to standards of propriety and morality [ant: indecency]
noun
The quality of being polite and respectable
Definition of 'Decency'
From: GCIDE
- Decency \De"cen*cy\, n.; pl. Decencies. [L. decentia, fr. decens: cf. F. d['e]cence. See Decent.]
- 1. The quality or state of being decent, suitable, or becoming, in words or behavior; propriety of form in social intercourse, in actions, or in discourse; proper formality; becoming ceremony; seemliness; hence, freedom from obscenity or indecorum; modesty. [1913 Webster]
- Observances of time, place, and of decency in general. --Burke. [1913 Webster]
- Immodest words admit of no defense, For want of decency is want of sense. --Roscommon. [1913 Webster]
- 2. That which is proper or becoming. [1913 Webster]
- The external decencies of worship. --Atterbury. [1913 Webster]
- Those thousand decencies, that daily flow From all her words and actions. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'decency'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accommodatingness,
- advantage,
- advantageousness,
- advisability,
- affability,
- agreeableness,
- amiability,
- appropriateness,
- assured probity,
- becomingness,
- beneficialness,
- benevolence,
- benignity,
- bienseance,
- blamelessness,
- ceremoniousness,
- character,
- civility,
- cleanness,
- complaisance,
- compliance,
- conformity,
- convenance,
- convenience,
- convention,
- conventional usage,
- conventionalism,
- conventionality,
- correctitude,
- correctness,
- custom,
- decencies,
- decorousness,
- decorum,
- delicacy,
- desirability,
- dignity,
- elegance,
- erectness,
- estimableness,
- etiquette,
- expedience,
- expediency,
- fairness,
- feasibility,
- felicity,
- fitness,
- fittingness,
- form,
- formality,
- fruitfulness,
- generousness,
- genteelness,
- gentility,
- good character,
- good form,
- goodness,
- graciosity,
- graciousness,
- happiness,
- high ideals,
- high principles,
- high-mindedness,
- honesty,
- honor,
- honorableness,
- immaculacy,
- integrity,
- irreproachability,
- irreproachableness,
- justice,
- justness,
- kindliness,
- kindness,
- meetness,
- modesty,
- moral excellence,
- moral strength,
- niceness,
- nobility,
- normality,
- normativeness,
- obligingness,
- opportuneness,
- percentage,
- politicness,
- principles,
- probity,
- profit,
- profitability,
- properness,
- proprieties,
- propriety,
- prudence,
- pudency,
- pudicity,
- pureness,
- purity,
- rectitude,
- reputability,
- respectability,
- righteousness,
- rightness,
- seasonableness,
- seemliness,
- shame,
- social convention,
- social usage,
- stainlessness,
- suitability,
- timeliness,
- unimpeachability,
- unimpeachableness,
- unspottedness,
- uprightness,
- upstandingness,
- urbanity,
- usefulness,
- virtue,
- virtuousness,
- wisdom,
- worthiness,
- worthwhileness