/ dʒenˈtɪləti; NAmE / noun [ U ] ( formal )
1.
very good manners and behaviour; the fact of belonging to a high social class :
He took her hand with discreet gentility.
She thinks expensive clothes are a mark of gentility.
2.
the fact of being quiet and old-fashioned :
the faded gentility of the town
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WORD ORIGIN
Middle English (in the sense honourable birth ): from Old French gentilite , from gentil high-born, noble, from Latin gentilis of the same clan, from gens , gent- family, race, from the root of gignere beget.