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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Indecency \In*de"cen*cy\, n.; pl {Indecencies}. [L. indecentia
unseemliness: cf F. ind['e]cence.]
1. The quality or state of being indecent; want of decency,
modesty, or good manners; obscenity.
2. That which is indecent; an indecent word or act an
offense against delicacy.
They who by speech or writing, present to the ear
or the eye of modesty any of the indecencies I
allude to are pests of society. --Beattie.
Syn: Indelicacy; indecorum; immodesty; impurity; obscenity.
See {Indecorum}.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
indecency
n 1: the quality of being indecent [ant: {decency}]
2: an indecent or improper act [syn: {impropriety}]
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