How to pronounce“gentility”in English
As soon as the Revolution ended, all of that well-meaning frugality sort of went out the window, and suddenly everybody wanted Rococo furniture from France and these British ideals
of gentility where flirting was practiced as an art and everybody wanted to have a parlor with a piano and a tea set -- were very popular. So thrift has been a virtue Americans have
sort of taken on when it's convenient and jettisoned when it was no longer necessary.
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Definitions of “gentility”
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.”
The upper classes, the gentry.
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