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decency

noun
/ˈdiːsənsi/UK

Etymology

From Latin decentia, from decens. Equivalent to decent + -cy. Compare French décence.

  1. derived from *deḱ-✻
  2. derived from decēns
  3. borrowed from décent
  4. suffixed as decency — “decent + cy”

Definitions

  1. The quality of being decent

    The quality of being decent; propriety.

    • Immodest words admit of no defence, / For want of decency is want of sense.
    • [To Joseph McCarthy:] Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?

  2. That which is proper or becoming.

    • Those thousand decencies, that daily flow / From all her words and actions.
    • 'Tis in the Civil Government, as in the Offices of Religion; which, were they ſtript of all the External Decencies of Worſhip, would not make a due Impreſſion on the Minds of thoſe who aſſiſt at them.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at decency. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at decency. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at decency

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA