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

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

Advertisement Mamdani’s vision of an equitable, affordable urbanity emerges as a challenge to this long history of abandonment and exclusion. —Fahad Zuberi, Time, 5 Nov. 2025

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