SEEMLINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does seemliness mean? 

• SEEMLINESS (noun)
  The noun SEEMLINESS has 1 sense:

1. a sense of propriety and consideration for others

  Familiarity information: SEEMLINESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEEMLINESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A sense of propriety and consideration for others

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

grace; seemliness

Context example:

a place where the company of others must be accepted with good grace

Hypernyms ("seemliness" is a kind of...):

correctitude; properness; propriety (correct or appropriate behavior)

Antonym:

unseemliness (a lack of consideration for others)

Derivation:

seemly (according with custom or propriety)