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Meaning of "indecorousness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF INDECOROUSNESS

indecorousness  [ɪnˈdɛkərəsnəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INDECOROUSNESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Indecorousness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES INDECOROUSNESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

indecorousness

Decorum

Decorum was a principle of classical rhetoric, poetry and theatrical theory that was about the fitness or otherwise of a style to a theatrical subject. The concept of decorum is also applied to prescribed limits of appropriate social behavior within set situations.

Definition of indecorousness in the English dictionary

The definition of indecorousness in the dictionary is indecorous behaviour or speech; unseemliness.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH INDECOROUSNESS


adventurousness
ədˈvɛntʃərəsnəs
amorousness
ˈæmərəsnəs
barbarousness
ˈbɑːbərəsnəs
clamorousness
ˈklæmərəsnəs
dangerousness
ˈdeɪndʒərəsnəs
decorousness
ˈdɛkərəsnəs
desirousness
dɪˈzaɪərəsnəs
dolorousness
ˈdɒlərəsnəs
fissiparousness
fɪˈsɪpərəsnəs
floriferousness
flɔːˈrɪfərəsnəs
glamorousness
ˈɡlæmərəsnəs
humorousness
ˈhjuːmərəsnəs
malodorousness
mælˈəʊdərəsnəs
odoriferousness
ˌəʊdərˈɪfərəsnəs
odorousness
ˈəʊdərəsnəs
rapturousness
ˈræptʃərəsnəs
rigorousness
ˈrɪɡərəsnəs
treacherousness
ˈtrɛtʃərəsnəs
vigorousness
ˈvɪɡərəsnəs
vociferousness
vəˈsɪfərəsnəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INDECOROUSNESS

indecent behaviour
indecent exposure
indecently
indeciduate
indeciduous
indecipherability
indecipherable
indecipherableness
indecipherably
indecision
indecisive
indecisively
indecisiveness
indeclinable
indeclinableness
indeclinably
indecomposable
indecorous
indecorously
indecorum

WORDS THAT END LIKE INDECOROUSNESS

biliousness
business
carelessness
consciousness
deliciousness
deviousness
flawlessness
helplessness
hilariousness
homelessness
hopelessness
lawlessness
nervousness
preciousness
restlessness
ridiculousness
righteousness
seriousness
statelessness
unconsciousness
viciousness

Synonyms and antonyms of indecorousness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «indecorousness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF INDECOROUSNESS

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The translations of indecorousness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «indecorousness» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

indecorousness
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

indecorousness
570 millions of speakers

English

indecorousness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

indecorousness
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

indecorousness
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

indecorousness
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

indecorousness
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

indecorousness
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

indecorousness
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Indecorousness
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

indecorousness
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

indecorousness
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

indecorousness
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Indecorousness
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

indecorousness
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

indecorousness
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अनिश्चितता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

indecorousness
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

indecorousness
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

indecorousness
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

indecorousness
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

indecorousness
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

indecorousness
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

indecorousness
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

indecorousness
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

indecorousness
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of indecorousness

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INDECOROUSNESS»

The term «indecorousness» is normally little used and occupies the 134.796 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «INDECOROUSNESS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «indecorousness» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «indecorousness» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about indecorousness

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INDECOROUSNESS»

Discover the use of indecorousness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to indecorousness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Your Every-day Vocabulary: How to Enlarge it : Alphabetic List
(Adv. — indecorously.) In Scotland it was thought highly indecorous for a married woman to dance. — Mary Somerville. indecorousness. — The quality of being indecorous; violation of proprietary or good manners. "The indecorousness of his  ...
Josephine Turck Baker, 1918
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The Best Words
indecorousness. (in-DEK-er-es-nes) noun. decorous. (DEK-er-es) adjective behaving with decorum; proper or dignified; seemly. infandous (in-FAN-des) adjective too odious to be expressed; unspeakably horrible. 64 | THE BEST WORDS.
Robert Hartwell Fiske, 2011
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A dictionary of English synonymes and synonymous or parallel ...
Unbecoming, improper, unseemly, gross, rude, coarse, indecent, uncivil, impolite. Indecorousness, n. See Indecorum. Indecorum, п. I. Indecorousness, indecency, impropriety, grossness, rudeness, incivility, impoliteness, violation of propriety, ...
Richard Soule, George Holmes Howison, 1915
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Socrates and the Fat Rabbis
See indecorousness cultural exchanges, 134–36 Cynic criticism, 266 cynics, 26, 29 Dance (Lucian), 236 Darnton, Robert, xii Davis, Laurie, 251 Davis, Natalie Zemon, xii debate, inconclusive, 239. See also rhetoric deception (apate), 49n46,  ...
Daniel Boyarin, 2009
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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus
... vulgar; discourteous, ill-mannered, impolite, rude, uncivil; irregular, unlawful idiom in bad form con becoming, courteous, decent, nice, proper, seemly; conventional, formal ant decorous indecorousness n syn IMPROPRIETY 1, incorrectness, ...
Merriam-Webster, Inc, 1988
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Future Pasts : The Analytic Tradition in Twentieth-Century ...
It would only have increased the sense of the indecorousness or impurity of my manner had I suggested a diagnosis of those charges. I have not in any case been moved to do so. But in the confidence that translation, in its overcoming of its ...
Juliet Floyd Associate Professor of Philosophy Boston University, Sanford Shieh Assistant Professor of Philosophy Wesleyan University, 2001
7
Joseph in jeopardy
Margaret Lemon's indecorousness went right through her, like a stain ; her life, her speech, the direction of her thoughts all showed it. But her indecorousness was concealed by what her men friends called her "charm" ; in the same way as her ...
Julia Frankau, 1912
8
Playing Smart: New York Women Writers and Modern Magazine ...
... but one that in other contexts would be regarded with hostility or with a sense of indecorousness.”40 Prudence's return to New York, her embrace of indecorousness, is not just a matter of taste but of survival: “New York was my instrument ...
Catherine Keyser, 2010
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Sisters: Relation and Rescue in Nineteenth-century British ...
Reynolds's allusion to the Fates in The Ladies Waldegrave has the same partly tamed potential for indecorousness. Horace Walpole commissioned this picture of his nieces, the three Ladies Waldegrave, and before it was finished he ...
Michael Cohen, 1995
10
Thomas Heywood's Art of Love: The First Complete English ...
The English "Art of Love"
Ovid, Michael L. Stapleton, 2000

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INDECOROUSNESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term indecorousness is used in the context of the following news items.
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Roasted in Kashi
According to Anil Chaubey, it is precisely such subversion that separates Varanasi's local indecorousness from the seeming refinement of its ... «Hindu Business Line, Mar 15»
2
Haiku Reviews: ART 2014 Roundup I
... that sprawl across the wall with a deftly choreographed (but never elegant) indecorousness, seems to reflect, embrace, and recoil from the ... «Huffington Post, Jan 15»
3
Rotten company
... were embarrassed by his indecorousness, not the substance of what he said. It was — with apologies to that master of the political neologism ... «Calcutta Telegraph, Jul 14»
4
Catholic Novelist, Commercial Folly
Dismayed by the “business sense” and indecorousness of the times—the advent of jeans bothered him enough to provide a satirical scene for ... «The American Conservative, Mar 14»
5
Misunderstanding Regarding Homosexuality
Homosexuality is indecorousness and error and those guilty will receive punishment. Our text said they were “working unseemliness” and they ... «GhanaWeb, Oct 13»
6
Dodgers, McCourt Ask Judge to Scuttle Lawsuit Over Stow's Injuries
In this era when spectator sections at soccer games are frequently battle zones, it would seem that a modicum of indecorousness at baseball ... «Metropolitan News-Enterprise, Sep 13»
7
Back To The Future At Le Cong Kieu Street Market
They were mostly of Asian sweethearts wearing sleeveless tops and short skirts, in posed angles that bordered on the verge of indecorousness ... «Sabotage Times, Apr 13»
8
In 'Skyfall,' James Bond fights irrelevance
What was special about these movies' ideas of international politics and sexual indecorousness 40 and 50 years ago feels standard now; some ... «Boston.com, Nov 12»
9
The Taming of Rahman
His music also set in vogue a breezy, decisive indecorousness that blithely violated the unwritten rules about film music having to express an ... «Tehelka, Feb 11»
10
How to: archive and back up photos
... ventriculi stereopticon daffle foilsman indecorousness adatis issuer proligerous honeymooner lantaca autolyzing isomorphic theatrophobia ... «What Digital Camera, Sep 10»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Indecorousness [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/indecorousness>. Apr 2024 ».
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