properness

NOUN

decency

Synonyms

STRONG

appropriateness ceremoniousness civility comeliness conventionality correctness courtesy decorousness decorum dignity etiquette fitness fittingness formality honesty modesty propriety respectability righteousness seemliness virtue

WEAK

decentness good form good manners respectableness

Antonyms

STRONG

bad manners discourtesy immorality impoliteness impropriety inappropriateness rudeness unsuitability unsuitableness wrong

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In the Equality75 of the Relation that the Parts have one to another, which is called Symmetry, in the Richness of the Materials, in the Properness, Neatness, and Exactness of the Performance.

From An Abridgment of the Architecture of Vitruvius Containing a System of the Whole Works of that Author by Perrault, Claude

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