Why this word is great
PUDENCY — [Noun] A delicate sense of modesty or inward shame. From the Latin pudentia ("shame"), rooted in pudet ("it shames"). Unlike "pudicity" (which narrows to sexual chastity) or "decency" (which bows to external propriety), pudency is the quiet, personal blush—the instinctive recoil from vulgarity, the hesitation before self-display, the fleeting warmth in the cheeks when caught in an unguarded moment. It is the hand shielding a laugh, the averted gaze in a crowded room, the folded page of a diary left open by accident. A virtue so fragile it vanishes when named.