单词	respectability
释义	respectability /rɪˌspɛktəˈbɪlɪti / noun [mass noun] 1The quality of being socially acceptable: provincial notions of respectability... Teaching offered both social respectability and an opportunity to earn a living. It describes the way the lower castes tend to imitate the customs and rituals of the upper layers in order to gain social respectability. What they seemed to entirely be missing in their analysis is the notion of respectability. 1.1The quality of being accepted as valid or important within a particular field: scientific respectability... They desperately crave scientific respectability, but it is their own theory that prevents them from attaining it. In this way, perhaps, he seeks to cloak his book in an aura of scientific respectability. Now many astrologers seem to have a hankering, a hunger even, for scientific respectability that never fails to amaze me.
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