undecency
undecency is the obsolete form of indecency.
Meaning of indecency
Noun
indecency (plural indecencies)
- Lack of decency; the property or degree of being indecent.
- One sure sign of indecency is criticizing foreigners constantly, but remaining silent about the problems within your own land, or by your own people, or both.
- Synonyms:
- immorality, unrightfulness, unseemliness, dishonour, improbity, impropriety, undecency, ungodliness, unhonour, unprobity
- Something showing lack of decency; something (such as a word) that is indecent.
Forms of undecency
| plural | undecencies |
|---|
Origin of undecency
From un- + decency.
Questions about undecency
- What is undecency the obsolete form of?
- Undecency is the obsolete form of indecency.
Words near undecency in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: undecency (page history and authors); indecency (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “undecency.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/undecency. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.