noun. The quality of being well-mannered; refinement.

noun. The condition of being born to the gentry.

noun. Persons of high social standing considered as a group.

noun. An attempt to convey or maintain the appearance of refinement and elegance.

noun. The quality or state of belonging to a certain gens, clan, or family; gentile relationship or stock.

noun. Noble or gentle birth.

noun. People of good birth; gentry.

noun. Gentile character; paganism; heathenism.

noun. The quality or state of being genteel; condition, appearance, or manner characteristic of polite society; genteel behavior; fashionableness; stylishness.

noun. Good extraction; dignity of birth.

noun. The quality or qualities appropriate to those who are well born, as self-respect, dignity, courage, courtesy, politeness of manner, a graceful and easy mien and behavior, etc.; good breeding.

noun. The class in society who are, or are expected to be, genteel; the gentry.

noun. Paganism; heathenism.

noun. The state of being elegant, genteel, having good breeding, or being socially superior.

noun. The upper classes, the gentry.

noun. elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression

"I said that my country-folk in general had a great many admirable qualities, but at the same time a great many foibles, foremost amongst which last was a crazy admiration for what they called gentility, which made them sycophantic to their superiors in station, and extremely insolent to those whom they considered below them."

elegance  

accessibility  advisability  availability  believability  collectibility  

civility  cordiality  decorum  finery  insignificance  

ancestry  appropriateness  aristocracy  aristocraticalness  becomingness