urbanity
noun/əːˈbæn.ɪ.ti/UK/ɝˈbæn.ə.ti/US
Etymology
From Middle English urbanitie, from Middle French urbanité, from Latin urbānitās, from urbānus (“belonging to a city”), with a sense of "having the manners of townspeople" in Classical Latin, from urbs (“city”); equivalent to urbane + -ity (sense 1) and urban + -ity (sense 2).
Definitions
Behaviour that is polished, refined, courteous.
- The vaunted courtesy of the old school, the smooth urbanity that prevailed in former days [...]
- Wealdon's two little visits explained perfectly the active urbanities of Captain Stanley Lake.
Urbanness.
- [...], the majority of cases will differ as to "urbanity", as most of the evacuees were rural.
- Evacuees, the majority of whom were rural persons, reported more tensions as the urbanity of the reception community increased
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for urbanity. 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