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Incivility

//ɪnsɪˈvɪlɪti// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The state of being uncivil; lack of courtesy; rudeness in manner. uncountable

    "Courtezan. How say you now? is not your husband mad? / Adriana. His incivility confirms no less."

  2. 2
    deliberate discourtesy wordnet
  3. 3
    Any act of rudeness or ill-breeding. countable

    "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."

  4. 4
    Lack of civilization; a state of rudeness or barbarism. uncountable

    "BEAT on, proud billows; Boreas blow; / Swell, curled waves, high as Jove's roof; / Your incivility doth ſhow, / That innocence is tempeſt proof; / Though ſurly Nereus frown, my thoughts are calm; / Then ſtrike, Affliction, for thy wounds are balm. [Attributed to Roger L'Estrange (1616–1704).]"

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.

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