GENTILITY meaning: Refinement and politeness in behavior

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gentility: Merriam-Webster
gentility: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
gentility: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
gentility: Collins English Dictionary
gentility: Vocabulary.com
Gentility, gentility: Wordnik
gentility: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
gentility: Wiktionary
gentility: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
gentility: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
gentility: Infoplease Dictionary
Gentility, gentility: Dictionary.com
Gentility: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
gentility: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
gentility: Rhymezone
Gentility: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
gentility: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
gentility: FreeDictionary.org
gentility: Mnemonic Dictionary
gentility: TheFreeDictionary.com
gentility: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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▸ noun: (uncountable) The state of being elegant, genteel, having good breeding, or being socially superior.
▸ noun: The upper classes, the gentry.

Opposite:

vulgarity, coarseness, crudeness

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refinement gentility, more...

Adjectives:

shabby, true, southern, class, natural, old, decayed, victorian, english, feminine, false

Colors:

lavender, ivory, pearl, champagne, mauve, more...

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