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    'Urbanity' is the noun: the quality of being urbane. It names the whole thing — the calm, the ease, the light good manners, the polish someone shows in company. You meet it most often after words like 'his', 'her', 'their', 'a certain', or 'with': 'his famous urbanity', 'she answered with great urbanity', 'a man of considerable urbanity'. It is uncountable in this meaning, so no 'an urbanity' and no 'urbanities' — with one exception worth knowing: in older writing, 'urbanities' in the plural can mean polite little remarks, the pleasant nothings people exchange before real talk begins. Like the rest of this family, the word is formal and literary; in ordinary speech people say 'charm', 'good manners', 'social ease', or just 'he's smooth'. And, again like 'urbane', it can be quietly two-edged — praise on the surface, with a hint underneath that the polish is a shell.

    溫文爾雅、待人從容的風度;(複數時,舊用法)客套話

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組成Comes through Middle English urbanitie and French urbanité from Latin urbānitās, from urbānus 'belonging to a city', from urbs 'city'. Equivalent to urbane + -ity, the ending that turns an adjective into the name of a quality (real → reality, able → ability).

同家族的字

  • urbanesame root; 'urbanity' is the quality of being urbane
  • urbansame Latin urbs 'city'
  • suburbLatin sub- 'near' + urbs 'city'

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urbanitynoun/əːˈbæn.ɪ.ti/

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    Behaviour that is polished, refined, courteous.

    • The vaunted courtesy of the old school, the smooth urbanity that prevailed in former days [...]
    • He only stayed a few days in London, to take the oaths and his seat in the House of Lords, a ceremony that was to take place on the morrow, and he held himself much indebted to the circumstance of spending his first evening at Lady Anne's, because the marquis of Wentworthdale had, with the utmost urbanity, offered to accompany him on that somewhat trying occasion,and he felt the value of his kindness not less than the courtesy evinced by a man of his rank and importance in the court and the House of Lords.
  • 2

    Urbanness.

    • [...], the majority of cases will differ as to "urbanity", as most of the evacuees were rural.
    • Evacuees, the majority of whom were rural persons, reported more tensions as the urbanity of the reception community increased

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