different between urbanity vs semirural

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

Anagrams

• Tyburnia

English

Etymology

semi- +? rural.

Adjective

semirural (not comparable)

1. Moderately rural; transcending both urbanity and province; developing
   • 2012, Henry K. Lee, San Francisco Chronicle, June 6, 2012, Sketches of Pleasanton trash-can victim released, link

     The body was found May 24 on the 11000 block of Dublin Canyon Road, a semirural area on the outskirts of the city.

Alternative forms

• semi-rural

See also

• exurban

Translations

Spanish

Adjective

semirural (plural semirurales)

1. semirural