Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Indecency

Indecency , noun

[Latin indecentia unseemliness: compare French indécence.]

1.
The quality or state of being indecent; lack of decency, modesty, or good manners; obscenity.
2.
That which is indecent; an indecent word or act; an offense against delicacy.
They who, by speech or writing, present to the ear or the eye of modesty any of the indecencies I allude to, are pests of society. — Beattie