1. politeness

noun. ['pəˈlaɪtnəs'] a courteous manner that respects accepted social usage.

Rhymes with Politeness

• forthrightness
• whiteness
• brightness
• tightness
• rightness
• lightness

Sentences with politeness

1. Noun, singular or mass
Eating everything on your plate is a sign of politeness.

Quotes about politeness

1. In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
- Thomas Jefferson

2. Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.
- Gustave Flaubert

3. It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

2. politeness

noun. ['pəˈlaɪtnəs'] the act of showing regard for others.