DECOROUSNESS Synonyms: 58 Similar and Opposite Words

decorousness

noun

Definition of decorousness

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Noun

There is no wellness experience too niche for the center which offers a hair salon, nail bar, yoga studio, fitness room and Pilates classes with the hip boutique studio The Beat, opening onto a panoramic terrace.

— Ryma Chikhoune, Footwear News, 25 Oct. 2026
The Nevada Independent reports that Lombardo’s campaign has used those issues to question Ford’s fitness, while Ford says the clemency matter followed procedure and disputes the criticism.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of fitness

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By the Victorian era, particularly following Prince Albert’s death in 1861 and Queen Victoria’s subsequent four decades in mourning, bereavement had evolved into an elaborate system of social etiquette.

— Livia Caligor, Vogue, 21 Oct. 2026
And there would have been girls rebelling against social etiquette back then, like, there would now.

— Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of etiquette

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The blunderbuss of violations of the basic decorum and dignity of democracy have become such a daily matter that the increasingly familiar response is to sigh and surrender.

— Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2026
However, her choice of a plainer variety for Monday’s festivities fit with the occasion’s decorum.

— Erin Wisti, Footwear News, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of decorum

Noun

And if there is a credible question about a speaker’s appropriateness, the library should investigate and act rationally based on actual evidence.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2026
As many as 11 sketches were removed, including a self-referential skit in which David Mitchell and Robert Webb joked about the appropriateness of Blackface while in Blackface.

— Jake Kanter, Deadline, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of appropriateness

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An automated evaluator checked each design for correctness and scored its resource requirements.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2026
Wake Up, which covered topics like her unique upbringing as part of a large, ex-Hasidic Jewish family, political correctness, gender identity and pronouns, wealth, Hollywood success and more.

— Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of correctness

Noun

Following that logic, the name of Florentina Holzinger’s final Venice Biennale performance, CLOSING ÉTUDE, suggests that after seven months of her propriety-imploding, waste-wonderland SEAWORLD VENICE, there are feats of endurance still ahead.

— Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 21 Oct. 2026
What is striking is that all these versions agree on her shyness, modesty, and propriety.

— Eva Blanco Medina, Vogue, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of propriety

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