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Plural of decency

regular plural

The plural of decency is decencies.

Forms of decency

Singulardecency /ˈdiːsənsi/
Pluraldecencies
Countablecountable and uncountable

Decencies in a sentence

  • The post-Second World War movies said that villainy would be punished and goodness would triumph; the decencies would be respected.1973, Pauline Kael, The New Yorker. From the entry Vietnamization

Meaning of decency

  1. noun The quality of being decent; propriety.
  2. noun That which is proper or becoming.

Full definition of decency

Questions about the plural of decency

What is the plural of decency?
The plural of decency is decencies.
Is decency countable?
Decency is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: decency (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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