propriety

Meaning of propriety

noun
  1. The particular character or essence of someone or something; individuality.
  2. A characteristic; an attribute.
  3. A piece of land owned by someone; someone's property.
  4. More generally, something owned by someone; a possession.
  5. The fact of possessing something; ownership.
  6. Correct language or pronunciation.
  7. Suitability, fitness; the quality of being appropriate.
  8. (often in the plural) Correctness in behaviour and morals; good manners, seemliness.

Information about propriety

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of propriety is: proprieties.
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Hyphenation of propriety

pro-pri-ety

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
  • propriety is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

propriety synonyms

Meaning properness:

properness, correctitude

Words that rhyme with propriety

gaiety, supergaiety, amphibiety, dubiety, nullbiety, nullibiety, ubiety, Society, intersociety, minisociety, nonsociety, society, subsociety, undersociety, diety, mediety, filiety, nimiety, omniety, moiety, impiety, piety, superpiety, unpiety, cinevariety, contrariety, ebriety, eumoiriety, glabriety, impropriety, inebriety, insobriety, luxuriety, malpropriety, noncontrariety, nonpropriety, nonsobriety, nonvariety, notoriety, overvariety, rariety, sobriety, subcontrariety, subvariety, unpropriety, unsobriety, variety, insatiety, oversatiety, quotiety

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