| Main Entry: | properness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | decency |
Synonyms: |
appropriateness, ceremoniousness, civility, comeliness, conventionality, correctness, courtesy, decentness, decorousness, decorum, dignity, etiquette, fitness, fittingness, formality, good form, good manners, honesty, modesty, propriety, respectability, respectableness, righteousness, seemliness, virtue |
| Main Entry: | correctness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | propriety |
Synonyms: |
bon ton, civility, correctitude, decency, decorousness, decorum, fitness, good breeding, order, orderliness, properness, rightness, seemliness |
Antonyms: |
impropriety, incorrectness, infidelity, unacceptableness, unseemliness, unsuitability, unsuitableness |
| Main Entry: | decorum |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | appropriate behavior, good manners |
Synonyms: |
breeding, civility, conduct, convenance, convention, correctitude, correctness, courtliness, decency, demeanor, deportment, dignity, etiquette, form, formality, gentility, good grace, gravity, habits, order, orderliness, politeness, politesse, properness, propriety, protocol, punctilio, respectability, seemliness, tact, usage |
Antonyms: |
bad behavior, bad manners, impoliteness, indecency, rudeness |
| Main Entry: | expediency/expedience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | appropriateness; worth |
Synonyms: |
advantage, advantageousness, advisability, appositeness, aptness, benefit, convenience, desirability, effectiveness, efficiency, fitness, helpfulness, judiciousness, meetness, opportunism, opportunity, order, policy, practicality, pragmatism, profitability, profitableness, properness, propitiousness, propriety, prudence, rightness, suitability, usefulness, utilitarianism, utility |
Antonyms: |
disadvantage, inappropriateness |
| Main Entry: | order |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lawfulness |
Synonyms: |
calm, control, decorousness, decorum, discipline, goodness, integrity, law, law and order, niceness, orderliness, peace, peacefulness, probity, properness, propriety, quiet, rectitude, rightness, seemliness, suitability, tranquility, uprightness |
| Notes: | an order is being told to do something with no specific guidelines, a command is being told to do something in a specific way, and a directive is being told to do something and getting this information through channels |
Antonyms: |
lawlessness, liberty, license |
| Main Entry: | propriety |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | suitableness, appropriateness |
Synonyms: |
accordance, advisability, agreeableness, appositeness, aptness, becomingness, compatibility, concord, congruity, consonance, convenience, correctness, correspondence, decorum, ethicality, expedience, fitness, harmony, justice, legitimacy, meetness, morality, order, pleasantness, properness, recommendability, rectitude, respectability, rightness, seemliness, suitability |
Antonyms: |
immorality, impropriety, inappropriateness, unsuitableness, wrong |
| Main Entry: | right |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | justice, morality |
Synonyms: |
correctness, emancipation, enfranchisement, equity, freedom, good, goodness, honor, independence, integrity, lawfulness, legality, liberty, properness, propriety, reason, rectitude, righteousness, rightness, straight, truth, uprightness, virtue |
Antonyms: |
corruption, immorality, injustice, unfairness, unjustness, wrong |
| Main Entry: | decentness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | decency |
Synonyms: |
civility, decorousness, decorum, dignity, modesty, properness, propriety, respectability, respectableness |
| Main Entry: | decorousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | decency |
Synonyms: |
civility, decentness, decorum, dignity, modesty, properness, propriety, respectability, respectableness |
| Main Entry: | respectableness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | decency |
Synonyms: |
appropriateness, ceremoniousness, civility, comeliness, conventionality, correctness, courtesy, decentness, decorousness, decorum, dignity, etiquette, fitness, fittingness, formality, good form, good manners, honesty, modesty, properness, propriety, respectability, righteousness, seemliness, virtue |