Urbanity

Definition: Urbanity

Urbanity

Noun

1. Polished courtesy; elegance of manner.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "urbanity" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Satire

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Urbanity

Courtesy

Noun: courtesy; respect; good manners, good behavior, good breeding; manners; politeness; Adjective: bienseance, urbanity, comity, gentility, breeding, polish, presence; civility, civilization; amenity, suavity; good temper, good humor; amiability, easy temper, complacency, soft tongue, mansuetude; condescension; (humility); affability, complaisance, pr_venance, amability, gallantry; pink of politeness, pink of courtesy.

Sociality

Welcome, welcomeness; greeting; hearty welcome, hearty reception, warm reception; urbanity; (courtesy); familiarity.

Crosswords: Urbanity

Books

• Art & the City: A Dream of Urbanity (Art & Design Profiles, No 50) (reference)

• Europan 6: In Between Cities, Architectural Dynamics and New Urbanity (reference)

• Urbanity and suburbanity; an inaugural lecture delivered in the University of Leicester, 1 May 1973 (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Urbanity (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Albanian

mirësjellje (civility, complaisance, courtesy, decency, mannerliness, politeness, suavity), elegancë (chic, class, daintiness, elegance, elegancy, grace, smartness, stylishness). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كياسة (civility, comity, complaisance, complaisant, courtesy, delicacy, elegance, grace, politeness, refinement), ‏لطف (affableness, allay, alleviate, amenity, amiability, appease, assuage, attemper, attenuate, benignity, civility, courtesy, ease, extenuate, friendliness, geniality, gentleness, kindness, lighten, mildness, mitigate, moderate, modify, mollify, palliate, politeness, qualify, quell, relax, relieve, smooth, soften, softness, soothe, suavity, sweeten, temper, tone down), ‏لباقة (diplomacy, felicity, management, savoir faire, skill, suaveness, tact), ‏تهذيب (breeding, cultivation, culture, discipline, edification, expurgation, polish, politeness, precept, pruning, purgation, refinement, reformation, retouch, revision, sublimation), ‏أدب (chasten, correct, discipline, educate, good manners, letters, literature, propriety, school, seemliness). (various references)

Bulgarian 

вежливост (affability, amenity, comity, complaisance, courtliness, delicacy, politeness), изтънченост (courtliness, daintiness, delicacy, discrimination, nicety, polish, politeness, refinement, sophistication, subtlety), изисканост (accomplishments, class, daintiness, elegance, elegancy, neatness, polish, politeness, refinement, stylishness, suavity, subtlety). (various references)

Czech

zdvořilost (civility, comity, courtesy, mannerliness, politeness, respectfulness). (various references)

French

urbanité. (various references)

German

Urbanität. (various references)

Greek 

ευγένεια (chivalry, civility, comity, complaisance, consideration for, courtesy, cousteousness, delicacy, gallantry, gentility, gentleness, graciousness, humaneness, ladyship, loftiness, nobility, nobleness, politeness, refinement, respectfulness, tactfulness, urbanness). (various references)

Hungarian

udvariasság (affability, attention, chivalry, civility, comity, complacency, complaisance, courtesy, courtliness, gallantry, mannerliness, neighborliness, neighbourliness, obsequiousness, politeness). (various references)

Italian

urbanit� , gentilezza (affability, blandness, civility, comity, courtesy, Favor, favour, gentleness, goodwill, kindliness, kindness, lovableness, thoughtfulness), cortesia (civility, comity, complaisance, courteousness, courtesy, courtliness, Favor, favour, friendliness, gentleness, goodness, goodwill, kindness, politeness). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

京風 (Kyoto style, refinement), アート紙 (airhead, almond, amen, arbiter, arbitration, arm, arm warmer, armchair, armlet, armor, army, army blue, army look, art paper, coated paper, dumb woman, Early American, evening, urban, urban design, urban life, urban renewal, urban sprawl). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きょうふう (Kyoto style, raging wind, refinement, reform of morals, strong wind), アーバニティー . (various references)

Pig Latin

anityurbay

Portuguese

urbanidade (mannerliness, suavity), educação (accomplishments, acquirements, breeding, courtesy, discipline, education, mannerliness, nurture, politeness, quiet manner, training), delicadeza (comity, consideration, courtesy, daintiness, delicacy, fineness, finesse, mannerliness, niceness, nicety, respect, suavity, tenderness), cortesia (amenity, attention, civility, comity, courtesy, gallantry, mannerliness, politeness, suavity). (various references)

Romanian

urbanitate. (various references)

Russian 

вежливость (affability, civility, comity, courtesy, courtliness, mannerliness, politeness). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

otmenost (gentility, ladyhood, stylishness). (various references)

Spanish

urbanidad (civility, courtesy, refinement), cortesía (affability, candidness, chivalry, civility, comity, courtesy, curtsey, curtsy, decency, gallantry, politeness, suavity), bravura (bravery, bravura, civility, courtesy, crust, curtsey, curtsy, doughtiness, ferocity, fury, viciousness). (various references)

Swedish

urbanitet, världsvana, belevenhet (prevenance). (various references)

Turkish

uygarlık (civilization, urbaneness), nezaket (affability, civility, comity, complaisance, courtesy, daintiness, decency, decorum, delicacy, devoirs, gallantry, gentleness, grace, gracefulness, graciousness, keenness, kindliness, kindness, mildness, polish, politeness, suavity, sweetness, urbaneness), medenilik (civilization, culture, urbaneness), kibarlık (chivalry, civility, comity, gentility, grandeur, kid glove, mannerliness, niceness, nobleness, polish, refinement, smartness, urbaneness). (various references)

Ukrainian

світська розмова, ввічливість (affability, civility, comity, complaisance, courtesy, courtliness, decency, mannerliness, politeness, suavity), міське життя. (various references)

Vietnamese 

phong cách lịch sự. (various references)

Misspellings

"Urbanity" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Rubaiya, urbacity, urbanist. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: butyrin, unitary.

-2 letters: binary, brainy, nutria, rubati, turban.

-3 letters: aunty, bairn, banty, barny, brain, brant, briny, bruin, bruit, brunt, bunya, buran, burin, burnt, nubia, rainy, riant, runty, rutin, tabun, train, unary, unbar, unity, urban, urbia, yurta.

-4 letters: abri, abut, airn, airt, airy, anti, arty, aunt, ayin, bait, bani, barn, bint, bran, brat, bray, brin.

+2 letters: incubatory.

+3 letters: ablutionary, insalubrity, inscrutably.

+4 letters: antiburglary, binocularity, insurability, subnormality, uncharitably, unprofitably.

+5 letters: enumerability, insupportably, mensurability, refundability, subordinately, subventionary, unpredictably, unreliability, unworkability, vulnerability.