Other forms: civilities
Civility is basic politeness in dealing with people. Common civility, a lack of civility, civility in public life.
It is the minimum rather than warmth — civility asks only that you treat people decently, which is why calls for more civility in public life are calls for a floor rather than a ceiling. It has also been criticised as a way of policing tone rather than addressing substance, which is a fair objection in some uses. Note civil; and that the Latin means belonging to citizens.
1nouncivilityBasic politeness in dealing with people.
“Even though they disagreed strongly, the two candidates treated each other with civility.”
civility is a basic politeness.
Latin civilitas comes from civis, a citizen. Civil, civic, citizen and city come from the same citizenship.
Latin
civilitas
English, today
civility
Latin civilitas: compare French civilité. English equivalent civil + ity.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA