gen·til·i·ty 
(jĕn-tĭlĭ-tē)
(jĕn-tĭlĭ-tē)n.
1. The quality of being well-mannered; refinement.
2. The condition of being born to the gentry.
3. Persons of high social standing considered as a group.
4. An attempt to convey or maintain the appearance of refinement and elegance.
[Middle English gentilete, nobility of birth, from Old French, from Latin gentīlitās, from gentīlis, of the same clan; see GENTLE.]