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.
Decorum quality meaning. This noun is from latin decōrus proper becoming handsome from décor beauty grace which is also the source of english décor. 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. If you let out a big belch at a fancy dinner party you re not showing much decorum.
A requirement of correct behaviour in polite society. The quality or state of being decorous or exhibiting such dignified propriety. Propriety esp in behaviour or conduct.
The corresponding adjective is decorous meaning well behaved in a particular.