Decorum Quality Meaning
Decorum decency propriety dignity etiquetteare comparable either when they mean a code of rules respecting what is right fitting or honorable in behavior or more often when they mean the quality or character of lightness fitness or honorableness in behavior resulting from the observance of such a code.
Decorum quality meaning. Propriety collins english dictionary complete and unabridged 12th edition 2014 harpercollins publishers 1991 1994 1998 2000 2003 2006 2007 2009 2011 2014. The corresponding adjective is decorous meaning well behaved in a particular. A requirement of correct behaviour in polite society.
If you let out a big belch at a fancy dinner party you re not showing much decorum. The quality or state of being decorous or exhibiting such dignified propriety. Dignified propriety of behavior speech dress etc.
Propriety esp in behaviour or conduct.
