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Urbanity

//ɝˈbæn.ə.ti// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Behaviour that is polished, refined, courteous. countable, uncountable

    "The vaunted courtesy of the old school, the smooth urbanity that prevailed in former days [...]"

  2. 2
    the quality or character of life in a city or town wordnet
  3. 3
    Urbanness. countable, uncountable

    "[...], the majority of cases will differ as to "urbanity", as most of the evacuees were rural."

  4. 4
    polished courtesy; elegance of manner wordnet

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).

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