Definition of "gentility" in English

noun

1. (uncountable) The state of being elegant, genteel, having good breeding, or being socially superior.

   • 1967-1969, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure He is the violence and fear of the boy of my stories, yet the gentility and sensitivity of poetry.

2. The upper classes, the gentry.