comity
C2CEFR level
85/100Rarity: very rare
FormalRegister
General noun
Courtesy and considerate behaviour towards others; social harmony.
Even in fierce disagreement, they preserved a certain comity that kept the friendship intact.
Law noun
The mutual respect that one branch or jurisdiction affords the proper functions of another.
Out of constitutional comity, the courts are slow to question proceedings in Parliament.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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