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impoliteness vs ill-breeding

ill-breeding vs impoliteness

impoliteness and ill-breeding both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
impoliteness Yes No No No
ill-breeding Yes No No No
As nouns, ill-breeding is a hyponym of impoliteness; that is, ill-breeding is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than impoliteness:
  • impoliteness: a discourteous manner that ignores accepted social usage
  • ill-breeding: impoliteness resulting from ignorance
Other hyponyms of impoliteness include bad manners, crudeness, crudity, gaucheness.
impoliteness (noun) ill-breeding (noun)
a discourteous manner that ignores accepted social usage impoliteness resulting from ignorance
Difference between impoliteness and ill-breeding

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