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incivility

noun
/ɪnsɪˈvɪlɪti/

Etymology

From Middle French incivilité, from Late Latin incivilitas (“incivility”), from Latin incivilis (“impolite, uncivil”), from in- (privative prefix) + civilis (“belonging to a citizen, civic, political, urbane, courteous, civil”) (from civis (“a citizen”)), equivalent to in- + civility.

  1. derived from incivilis — “impolite, uncivil”
  2. derived from incivilitas — “incivility”
  3. derived from incivilité

Definitions

  1. The state of being uncivil

    The state of being uncivil; lack of courtesy; rudeness in manner.

    • Courtezan. How say you now? is not your husband mad? / Adriana. His incivility confirms no less.
    • Little did Mr. Willoughby imagine, I suppose, when his looks censured me for incivility in breaking up the party, that I was called away to the relief of one whom he had made poor and miserable […]

  2. Any act of rudeness or ill-breeding.

    • Latona, in her flight from Juno, is churlishly intreated by the Lycian pesants, and denied the publique benefit of water: for which incivility these bawling Clownes are changed into croaking froggs, and confined unto that Lake for ever.

  3. Lack of civilization

    Lack of civilization; a state of rudeness or barbarism.

The neighborhood

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