Meaning of INDECENCY
| Pronunciation: | | in'deesunsee
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- [n] an indecent or improper act
- [n] the quality of being indecent
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| | Synonyms: | | impropriety |
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| | Antonyms: | | decency | | |
| | See Also: | | bawdiness, enormity, immodesty, improperness, impropriety, lewdness, misbehavior, misbehaviour, misdeed, obscenity, obscenity, outrageousness, salaciousness, salacity | |
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| | Definition: | | Indecency
This thorough investigation of restrictions developed to protect children ranges from Plato's argument for censorship, to Victorian laws against indecency, to late-20th-century measures to protect children surfing the Internet. Heins questions the ideology behind the tendency to censor what children can see. more details ... |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \In*de"cen*cy\, n.; pl. {Indecencies}. [L. indecentia
unseemliness: cf. F. ind['e]cence.]
1. The quality or state of being indecent; want of decency,
modesty, or good manners; obscenity.
2. That which is indecent; an indecent word or act; an
offense against delicacy.
They who, by speech or writing, present to the ear
or the eye of modesty any of the indecencies I
allude to, are pests of society. --Beattie.
Syn: Indelicacy; indecorum; immodesty; impurity; obscenity.
See {Indecorum}.
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| | Related Terms: | | andromania, aphrodisia, Babbittry, bad taste, biological urge, bodily appetite, bourgeois taste, camp, campiness, carnal desire, concupiscence, desire, eromania, eroticism, eroticomaniac, erotism, erotomania, fleshly lust, furor uterinus, goatishness, gynecomania, high camp, horniness, hot blood, hot pants, impropriety, impurity, inappropriateness, indecorousness, indecorum, indelicacy, inelegance, inelegancy, infantile sexuality, itch, kitsch, lasciviousness, libidinousness, low camp, lust, lustfulness, maculacy, nymphomania, passion, philistinism, polymorphous perversity, poor taste, pop, pop culture, prurience, pruriency, satyriasis, satyrism, sexual desire, sexual longing, sexual passion, soiledness, sulliedness, taintedness, tastelessness, unaestheticism, unaestheticness, unbecomingness, unchasteness, unchastity, uncleanliness, uncleanness, unfittingness, unseemliness, unsuitability, unsuitableness, unvirtuousness, venereal appetite, vulgar taste, vulgarism, vulgarity, vulgarness |
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