0 the fact or quality of being urbane (= confident, relaxed, and polite): --
The Emperor accepted this apology with characteristic graciousness and urbanity.
The book is a pleasure to read, reminding us of its author's characteristic wit and urbanity.
The experience of urbanity is therefore more mental than physical and urban life is no longer restricted to city-dwellers; the countryman may be urban while the city-dweller may not be.
Though perhaps not to the same extent as in cities, language usage in rural areas nevertheless reflects the same cosmopolitan influences that have produced the urban vernaculars that establish urbanity.
It was particularly important in urban environments where the possibilities for confusion were greatest, and where 'urbanity' first emerged.
Improved mobility has resulted in a new urbanity that encompasses both landscape and city systems.
Urbanity is one impor tant thread, femaleness another.
Moreover, the book is a pleasure to read, reminding us of its author's characteristic wit and urbanity.
It should be read by all historians of urbanity and of material culture.
We thought that this would be the perfect occasion to use our ideas about urbanity to formulate a 'plan' for the site.
