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noun polished courtesy; elegance of manner
noun the quality or character of life in a city or town
originFrom Middle English urbanitie, from Middle French urbanité, from Latin urbānitās, from urbānus (“belonging to a city”), with a sense of "having the manners of townspeople" in Classical Latin, from urbs (“city”); equivalent to urbane + -ity (sense 1) and urban + -ity (sense 2).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0