decency

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: de=cen=cy

OXFORD DICTIONARY

decency, n. (pl. -ies)
1 correct and tasteful standards of behaviour as generally accepted.
2 conformity with current standards of behaviour or propriety.
3 avoidance of obscenity.
4 (in pl.) the requirements of correct behaviour.

Etymology

L decentia f. decere be fitting

THESAURUS

decency

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

ROGET THESAURUS

decency

Purity

N purity, decency, decorum, delicacy, continence, chastity, honesty, virtue, modesty, shame, pudicity, pucelage, virginity, vestal, virgin, Joseph, Hippolytus, Lucretia, Diana, prude, pure, undefiled, modest, delicate, decent, decorous, virginibus puerisque, simon-pure, chaste, continent, virtuous, honest, Platonic, virgin, unsullied, cherry, as chaste as unsunn'd snow, a soul as white as heaven, 'tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity, to the pure all things are pure.