indecency

Other forms of indecency

plural

indecencies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about indecency

What does indecency mean?

indecency means "the quality of being indecent". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in indecency?

indecency has 4 syllables: in-de-cen-cy. The stress falls on "de". In IPA it is /ˌɪnˈdisənsi/.

What is another word for indecency?

Close synonyms include impropriety. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of indecency?

The recorded antonyms are decency.

Is indecency a common word?

indecency is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with indecency?

1 word rhymes with indecency. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.