'Indecency' definitions:
Definition of 'indecency'
From: WordNet
noun
The quality of being indecent [ant: decency]
noun
An indecent or improper act [syn: indecency, impropriety]
Definition of 'Indecency'
From: GCIDE
- Indecency \In*de"cen*cy\, n.; pl. Indecencies. [L. indecentia unseemliness: cf. F. ind['e]cence.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. The quality or state of being indecent; lack of decency, modesty, or good manners; obscenity. [1913 Webster]
- 2. That which is indecent; an indecent word or act; an offense against delicacy. [1913 Webster]
- They who, by speech or writing, present to the ear or the eye of modesty any of the indecencies I allude to, are pests of society. --Beattie.
- Syn: Indelicacy; indecorum; immodesty; impurity; obscenity. See Indecorum. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'indecency'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- andromania,
- aphrodisia,
- Babbittry,
- bad taste,
- biological urge,
- bodily appetite,
- bourgeois taste,
- camp,
- campiness,
- carnal desire,
- concupiscence,
- desire,
- eromania,
- eroticism,
- eroticomaniac,
- erotism,
- erotomania,
- fleshly lust,
- furor uterinus,
- goatishness,
- gynecomania,
- high camp,
- horniness,
- hot blood,
- hot pants,
- impropriety,
- impurity,
- inappropriateness,
- indecorousness,
- indecorum,
- indelicacy,
- inelegance,
- inelegancy,
- infantile sexuality,
- itch,
- kitsch,
- lasciviousness,
- libidinousness,
- low camp,
- lust,
- lustfulness,
- maculacy,
- nymphomania,
- passion,
- philistinism,
- polymorphous perversity,
- poor taste,
- pop,
- pop culture,
- prurience,
- pruriency,
- satyriasis,
- satyrism,
- sexual desire,
- sexual longing,
- sexual passion,
- soiledness,
- sulliedness,
- taintedness,
- tastelessness,
- unaestheticism,
- unaestheticness,
- unbecomingness,
- unchasteness,
- unchastity,
- uncleanliness,
- uncleanness,
- unfittingness,
- unseemliness,
- unsuitability,
- unsuitableness,
- unvirtuousness,
- venereal appetite,
- vulgar taste,
- vulgarism,
- vulgarity,
- vulgarness