politeness
noun/pəˈlaɪtnəs/
Etymology
From polite + -ness.
Definitions
The quality of being polite.
- At school, where politeness is not one of the compulsory subjects, I was "Pup", "Puggy", "Ki-ki", "Balcombe Beauty", "Snarleywow", and other shafts of endearment. I was not petted.
A polite act.
- These politenesses left Miss Marley floundering for initiative, holding Jasper and being solemnly inspected by Podson, who clearly depended on her the convention of an afternoon call.
The neighborhood
- antonymimpolitenessantonym(s) of “act or quality of being polite”
- antonymrudenessantonym(s) of “act or quality of being polite”
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for politeness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA