different between civility vs urbanity

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin civilitas: compare French civilité. See civil.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??v?l.?.ti/

Noun

civility (countable and uncountable, plural civilities)

1. Speech or behaviour that is fit for civil interactions; politeness, courtesy. [from 16th c.]
   • December 1749 Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, letter to his son

     The insolent civility of a proud man is, if possible, more shocking than his rudeness could be.

2. (chiefly in the plural) An individual act or expression of polite behaviour; a courtesy. [from 17th c.]
   • 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, I.3:

     Mr Lovelace received from every one those civilities which were due to his birth […].

3. (now archaic) The state or fact of being civilized; civilization. [from 16th c.]
   • 1612, John Davies, Discoverie of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued

     Monarchies have risen from barbarism to civility, and fallen again to ruin.

4. (obsolete) A civil office; a civil capacity. [16th c.]
   • March 15 1549, Hugh Latimer, second sermon preached before King Edward VI

     To serve in a civility.

Translations

English

Etymology

urban +? -ity, from Middle French urbanité, from Latin urbanitas, from urbanus (“belonging to a city”), with a sense of "having the manners of townspeople" in Classical Latin, from urbs (“city”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???bæn.?.ti/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??bæn.?.ti/

Noun

urbanity (countable and uncountable, plural urbanities)

1. Behaviour that is polished, refined, courteous.
   • 1825, Washington Irving, "Paris at the Restoration", The Crayon Papers,

     The vaunted courtesy of the old school, the smooth urbanity that prevailed in former days [...]
2. What is characteristically urban in an area; urbanness.
   • 1955, C.J. Lammers, Studies in Holland Flood Disaster 1953, vol. 2, p. 39:

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

   • 1956, Fred C. Iklé & Harry V. Kincaid, "Social Aspects of Wartime Evacuation of American Cities", Disaster Study, vol 4., p. 44:

     Evacuees, the majority of whom were rural persons, reported more tensions as the urbanity of the reception community increased

Antonyms

• rurality

Translations

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