Incivility Definition

ĭnsĭ-vĭlĭ-tē
incivilities
noun
incivilities
The quality or condition of being uncivil.
American Heritage
A lack of courtesy or politeness; rudeness.
Webster's New World
A rude or discourteous act.
Webster's New World

Want of civilization; a state of rudeness or barbarism.

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Origin of Incivility

  • From Middle French incivilité, from Late Latin incivilitas (“incivility”), from Latin incivilis (“impolite, uncivil”), from in- (“privative”) + civilis (“belonging to a citizen, civic, political, urbane, courteous, civil”), from civis (“a citizen”).

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Incivility Sentence Examples

  • An environmental incivility is any aspect of the environment about which people may be inclined to feel negatively.

  • She could almost be angry herself at such angry incivility; but she checked the resentful sensation; she remembered her own ignorance.

  • Anything, therefore, that reduces the incidence of such families is likely to reduce incivility and anti-social behavior among the young.

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Words Starting With I and Ending With Y

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