incivility

== English == === Etymology === From Middle French incivilité, from Late Latin incivilitas (“incivility”), from Latin incivilis (“impolite, uncivil”), from in- (privative prefix) + civilis (“belonging to a citizen, civic, political, urbane, courteous, civil”) (from civis (“a citizen”)), equivalent to in- +‎ civility. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɪnsɪˈvɪlɪti/ Hyphenation: in‧ci‧vil‧i‧ty === Noun === incivility (countable and uncountable, plural incivilities) (uncountable) The state of being uncivil; lack of courtesy; rudeness in manner. Synonym: impoliteness 1668, David Lloyd, Memoires of the Lives, Actions, Sufferings, and Deaths of those Noble, Reverend, and Excellent Personages that suffered by Death, Sequestration, Decimation, and otherwise for the Protestant Religion, London: Samuel Speed, “The Life and Death of Robert Berkley,” p. 96,[1] Beat on proud Billows, Boreas blow, Swell curled Waves, high as Jove’s roof, Your incivility doth show, That Innocence is tempest proof. (countable) Any act of rudeness or ill-breeding. 1889, Sabine Baring-Gould, “A Face in the Dark” in Pennycomequicks, London: Spencer, Blackett & Hallam, Volume II, p. 54:[2] When my poor Sidebottom was alive, if there had been any unpleasantness between us during the day [...] I have shaken him at night to wake him up, that he might receive my pardon for an incivility said or done. (uncountable) Lack of civilization; a state of rudeness or barbarism. ==== Related terms ==== incivil ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== discourtesy disrespect impoliteness rudeness uncourteousness unmannerliness === References === William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “incivility”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. “incivility”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.