(ש"ע) הגינות; נימוס; הלימות; התאמה

n. fairness, decency; courtesy, politeness; appropriateness; suitability, fitness

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Noun
1. correct or appropriate behavior
(synonym) properness, correctitude
(antonym) impropriety, improperness
(hypernym) demeanor, demeanour, behavior, behaviour, conduct, deportment
(hyponym) decorum, decorousness
(attribute) proper

(n.)
The quality or state of being proper; suitableness to an acknowledged or correct standard or rule; consonance with established principles, rules, or customs; fitness; appropriateness; as, propriety of behavior, language, manners, etc.
  

(n.)
That which is proper or peculiar; an inherent property or quality; peculiarity.
  

(n.)
Individual right to hold property; ownership by personal title; property.
  

Synonyms and related words:
Atticism, admissibility, advantage, advantageousness, advisability, amenities, applicability, appositeness, appropriateness, aptitude, aptness, auspiciousness, becomingness, beneficialness, bienseance, breeding, ceremony, chargedness, chasteness, chastity, civilities, civility, clarity, classicalism, classicism, clearness, comeliness, conformity, convenance, convenience, convention, conventional usage, conventionalism, conventionality, correctitude, correctness, courtesy, criticality, crucialness, custom, decencies, decency, decorousness, decorum, defensibility, delicacy, desirability, dignity, directness, discrimination, distinction, drumhead justice, dueness, ease, elegance, elegancy, equitableness, equity, etiquette, evenhandedness, expedience, expediency, favorableness, feasibility, felicitousness, felicity, finish, fitness, fittedness, fittingness, flow, flowing periods, fluency, form, formality, fruitfulness, genteelness, gentility, give-and-take, good form, good taste, goodness, grace, gracefulness, gracility, happiness, health, justice, justifiability, justifiableness, justification, justness, lawfulness, legality, limpidity, loadedness, lucidity, mannerliness, measure for measure, meetness, modesty, mores, naturalism, naturalness, naturism, neatness, nemesis, niceness, normalcy, normality, normalness, normativeness, opportuneness, order, orderliness, pellucidity, percentage, perspicuity, plainness, poetic justice, polish, politeness, politesse, politicness, pregnancy, profit, profitability, properness, propitiousness, proprieties, protocol, prudence, pudency, pudicity, punctilio, purity, qualification, realism, refinement, regularity, relevance, respectability, restraint, retributive justice, right, righteousness, rightfulness, rightness, ripeness, ritual, rude justice, scales of justice, seasonableness, sedateness, seemliness, shame, simplicity, smoothness, social convention, social usage, straightforwardness, suitability, suitableness, summary justice, taste, tastefulness, terseness, the proprieties, timeliness, tradition, unaffectedness, urbanity, usefulness, warrantability, warrantedness, what is right, wholesomeness, wisdom, worthwhileness
  

propriety /propriety/

• danh từ
  • sự thích đáng, sự thích hợp, sự đúng đắn (của một hành động...)
  • sự đúng đắn, sự đúng mực, sự chỉnh, sự hợp lẽ, sự hợp thức (trong thái độ, cư xử)
    • a breach of propriety: thái độ không đúng mực, thái độ không chỉnh
  • phép tắc, khuôn phép, lễ nghi, phép lịch sự
    • must observe the proprieties: phải theo phép tắc

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