n. | 1. | The quality or state of being decent, suitable, or becoming, in words or behavior; propriety of form in social intercourse, in actions, or in discourse; proper formality; becoming ceremony; seemliness; hence, freedom from obscenity or indecorum; modesty. |
2. | That which is proper or becoming. |
Noun | 1. | decency - the quality of conforming to standards of propriety and morality Antonyms: indecency - the quality of being indecent |
2. | decency - the quality of being polite and respectable |