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gentilities

gentilities is the plural of gentility.

Meaning of gentility

Noun

gentility (countable and uncountable, plural gentilities)

  1. (uncountable) The state of being elegant, genteel, having good breeding, or being socially superior.
    • He is the violence and fear of the boy of my stories, yet the gentility and sensitivity of poetry.1967-1969, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
  2. The upper classes, the gentry.

Questions about gentilities

What is gentilities the plural of?
Gentilities is the plural of gentility.

Words near gentilities in the dictionary

  1. gentilism
  2. gentilisms
  3. gentilitial
  4. gentilitials
  5. gentilitian
  6. gentilities
  7. gentilitious
  8. gentility
  9. gentilization
  10. gentilize
  11. gentilized

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