urbanity

noun

ur·​ban·​i·​ty ˌər-ˈba-nə-tē 

plural urbanities

1

: the quality or state of being urbane

2

urbanities plural : urbane acts or conduct

Examples of urbanity in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The magazine’s urbanity lay in the anti-urbanism of its singular voices. — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026

His music is, in the best sense, grown-up, proof that a gifted songwriter can tackle the headiest, heaviest topics, compressing a novel’s worth of ideas, intelligence, irony, urbanity, humor and ambivalence into four minutes. — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2026

Catherine’s house doesn’t evoke Hyde Park brownstones, or even urbanity, so much as some generic Midwest vista, which is not right for this play. — Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 17 Apr. 2026

And with many of us wound up in concrete urbanity, the livestreams offer instant transportation to the wild. — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for urbanity

• humanity
• inanity
• insanity
• profanity
• christianity
• inhumanity
• sanity
• vanity