comity.

1. A spirit of considerate courtesy and cooperative respect between people or groups.

2. The respect by which one jurisdiction recognizes or gives effect to another’s laws, decisions, or institutions within applicable limits.

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Words that belong together

• a spirit of comity
• political comity

On the page

The meeting retained a degree of comity despite the disagreement.

She appealed to the old comity between the two households.

Usage notes

Primary category: literary. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.