seemliness
nounEtymology From Middle English semelynes, semlynesse, equivalent to seemly + -ness.
1
The property of being seemly, appropriateness of conduct or behavior.
- Her black dress, simple to austerity, suggested her bereaved condition, and I was innocently astonished that notwithstanding a real emotion she was able to dress the part she had to play according to her notions of seemliness.1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “ch. 10”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:
2
The result or product of being seemly.
- Antonyms
- unseemliness