Meaning of INDECORUM
| Pronunciation: | | `indi'kowrum
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- [n] an act of undue intimacy
- [n] a lack of decorum
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| | Synonyms: | | familiarity, impropriety, indecorousness, liberty |
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| | Antonyms: | | decorousness, decorum | | |
| | See Also: | | improperness, impropriety, misbehavior, misbehaviour, misdeed, unbecomingness, unseemliness | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \In`de*co"rum\, n. [Pref. in- not + decorum: cf. L.
indecorous unbecoming.]
1. Want of decorum; impropriety of behavior; that in behavior
or manners which violates the established rules of
civility, custom, or etiquette; indecorousness.
2. An indecorous or becoming action. --Young.
Syn: Indecorum is sometimes synonymous with indecency; but
indecency, more frequently than indecorum, is applied to
words or actions which refer to what nature and
propriety require to be concealed or suppressed.
Indecency is the stronger word; indecorum refers to any
transgression of etiquette or civility, especially in
public.
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| | Related Terms: | | aberrance, aberrancy, abnormality, Babbittry, bad taste, blooper, boner, boo-boo, bourgeois taste, break, camp, campiness, criminality, delinquency, deviance, deviancy, faux pas, gaffe, high camp, illegality, improperness, impropriety, inappropriateness, incorrectness, indecency, indecorousness, indelicacy, indiscreetness, indiscretion, inelegance, inelegancy, infraction, kitsch, low camp, philistinism, poor taste, pop, pop culture, sinfulness, solecism, tastelessness, unaestheticism, unaestheticness, unbecomingness, unchastity, unfitness, unfittingness, unlawfulness, unmeetness, unrighteousness, unseemliness, unsuitability, unsuitableness, violation, vulgar taste, vulgarism, vulgarity, vulgarness, wickedness, wrong, wrongfulness, wrongness |
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