noun, plural in·de·cen·cies for 4.
- the quality or condition of being indecent.
- impropriety or immodesty.
- obscenity or indelicacy.
- an indecent act, remark, etc.
noun plural -cies
- the state or quality of being indecent
- an indecent act, etc
1580s, from Latin indecentia “unseemliness, impropriety,” noun of quality from indecentem (see indecent).