incivilityn.
/ɪnsɪˈvɪlɪti/ The quality or condition of being incivil or uncivil.† 1. Want of civilization; uncivilized condition; savageness, barbarism. Obsolete.† 2. Want of good manners or good breeding; ill-bred behaviour. Obsolete.
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society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > civilization > lack of civilization > [noun]
barbarousness1549
Barbary1564
barbarity1570
barbarism1584
incivility1584
uncivility1598
wildness1639
ferity1646
the (also a) state of nature1650
savagism1665
savagery1782
semi-barbarism1817
barbarization1822
incivilization1823
semibarbarianism1828
savagedom1844
barbarianism1854
uncivilizedness1879
uncivilization1880
bruteness1883
semi-savagedom1887
1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft xi. iii. 191 The inciuilitie and cruell sacrifices of popish preests.
a1613 E. Brerewood Enq. Langs. & Relig. (1614) xiii. 97 In their inciuilitie and many barbarous properties, they [Americans] resemble the olde and rude Tartars.
a1666 R. Blair Life (1848) (modernized text) iii. 57 The northern Irishes remaining obdured in their idleness and incivility.
1774 T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry I. xvi. 423 The licentiousness of Boccacio's tales..was not so much the consequence of popular incivility, as it was owing to a particular event of the writer's age.
1811 Henry & Isabella I. Pref. 5 That barbarous relic of feudal incivility, duelling.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [noun] > unmannerliness
unmannerliness1550
misnurturednessa1578
misnurturenessa1599
incivility1603
perperitude1623
good (also bad) form1868
sans-gêne1893
mannerlessness1913
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 42 Cowardise, follie, and perverse incivilitie, be the defects of learning, and are meere ignorance.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) iv. iv. 47 Curt... Is not your husband mad? Adri. His inciuility confirmes no lesse. View more context for this quotation
1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 113 They account it the greatest incivility in the world to let any thing fall in eating.
1671 tr. A. de Courtin Rules Civility x. 108 'Tis gross incivility to begin any person of honours health, and to address it to himself.
3.
a. Ill-bred, uncivil, or uncourteous behaviour towards others; want of civility or politeness; discourtesy, rudeness.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > discourtesy > [noun]
uncourtesyc1380
undebonairtya1400
rudessec1415
ruditya1450
plainness1465
ingratitude1477
ingratuity1528
uncourteousness1530
rudeness?1533
discourtesy1555
inhumanity1557
unrudeness?1562
incivility1612
discourtship1616
unpoliteness1693
discourteousness1727
impolitenessa1773
ungraciousness1836
rudery1869
1612 T. Taylor Αρχὴν Ἁπάντων: Comm. Epist. Paul to Titus iii. 2 It would be thought too much inciuilitie to stay a man from shooting his venomed arrowes.
a1677 J. Taylor Contempl. State Man (1684) ii. x. 291 The irreverence and great incivility towards God in a Mortal Sin.
1769 Ld. Rochford in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. IV. 521 The Russian Ambassador appears personally satisfied with the excuses made for personal incivility, but considers his Court is highly insulted.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iv. 454 At Council he [Guildford] was treated by Jeffreys with marked incivility.
b. An act of rudeness or ill-breeding.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [noun] > unmannerliness > a breach of good manners
solecism1599
incivility1652
spinosity1653
false Latin1665
1652 H. Cogan tr. M. de Scudery Ibrahim ii. iv. 76 I had done an hundred incivilities to satisfie her.
1698 Mem. E. Ludlow I. 88 (R.) No person offered me the least incivility.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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