Dictionary

social grace en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (countable, in-plural, often) A skill for dealing with people and society.
   • Near-synonyms: social skills, soft skills, people skills
   • And those of us with ravaged faces / Lacking in the social graces / Desperately remained at home / Inventing lovers on the phone. 1975, “At Seventeen”, in Between the Lines, performed by Janis Ian:
   • His lack of mastery of the social graces made it obvious he had not been raised in upper-class society.
2. (uncountable) The ability to fit into polite society and behave properly and with etiquette.
   • His lack of social grace made him anathema at dinner parties.
   • Near-synonym: refinement

Forms

Coordinates

chill · coolness · cool

Hypernyms

deportment · behavior

Synonyms

people skills · social skills · soft skill · refinement