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• gentility — [n] sophistication, cultivation aristocracy, blue blood*, civility, courtesy, courtliness, culture, decorum, elegance, elite, etiquette, flower*, formality, gentle birth*, gentlefolk, gentry, good breeding*, good family*, good manners*, high… …   New thesaurus

• gentility — [jen til′i tē] n. pl. gentilities [ME gentilete < OFr < L gentilitas < gentilis: see GENTLE] 1. a) the condition of belonging by birth to the upper classes b) members of the upper class, collectively 2. the quality of being genteel; now …   English World dictionary

• elegance — [n] cultivated beauty, taste breeding, charm, class, courtliness, cultivation, culture, delicacy, dignity, discernment, distinction, exquisiteness, felicity, gentility, good taste, grace, gracefulness, grandeur, hauteur, lushness, luxury,… …   New thesaurus

• elegance — noun 1. a refined quality of gracefulness and good taste (Freq. 3) she conveys an aura of elegance and gentility • Ant: ↑inelegance • Derivationally related forms: ↑elegant • Hypernyms: ↑quality …   Useful english dictionary

• elegance — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Good taste Nouns 1. elegance, refinement, ease, grace, gracefulness, polish, finish, good taste, harmonious simplicity, rhythm, harmony, symmetry. See beauty.See affectation. 2. [good] style, euphony,… …   English dictionary for students

• gentility — /jen til i tee/, n. 1. good breeding or refinement. 2. affected or pretentious politeness or elegance. 3. the status of belonging to polite society. 4. members of polite society collectively. [1300 50; ME < OF gentilite < L gentilitat (s. of… …   Universalium

• elegance — Synonyms and related words: Babylonian splendor, acquired taste, amenities, appreciation of excellence, arabesque, attractiveness, baroque, baroqueness, beauteousness, beautifulness, beauty, beauty unadorned, bloom, breeding, brilliance, charm,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• gentility — Synonyms and related words: ancestry, appropriateness, aristocracy, aristocraticalness, becomingness, birth, blood, blue blood, breeding, civility, cultivation, culture, decency, decorousness, decorum, distinction, elegance, elite, felicity,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• gentility — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. refinement, elegance; courtesy; nobility. See fashion. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. decorum, propriety, refinement; see behavior 1 , decorum , refinement 3 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesa …   English dictionary for students

• elegance — n. 1. Grace, beauty, symmetry, propriety. 2. Refinement, polish, politeness, gentility …   New dictionary of synonyms

• elegance — n 1. fineness, luxuriousness, sumptuousness, opulence; grandeur, richness, choiceness; the good life, high style, exquisiteness, gracefulness; pulchritude, beauty, comeliness, finery, Fr. haute couture. swankiness. 2. refinement, grace,… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder