kingliness

Monarch's noble demeanor

Kingliness is the quality of being kingly—possessing the dignity, bearing, or manner associated with a king.

The word suggests regal authority, noble demeanor, or majestic presence: There was a kingliness about him that commanded respect.

It can describe actual royalty or anyone who carries themselves with sovereign composure.

regality

regal

Of or befitting royalty

  • royalOf monarchs
  • crownSovereign's ornamental headpiece
  • throneCeremonial chair for sovereigns

monarchy · sovereign · coronation · scepter · regalia · dynasty · realm · empire · palace · heir

bearing

dignity

Innate personal worth

grace · nobility · decorum · solemnity · propriety · gravitas · augustness · comportment · demeanor · carriage

grandeur

splendor

Impressive, striking beauty

resplendence · sumptuousness · majesty · glory · sublimity · impressiveness · loftiness · monumentality · lavishness · pageantry

virtue

benevolence

Disposition toward doing good

justice · honor · nobility · righteousness · mercy · clemency · graciousness · fairness · temperance · patronage

authority

command

Authoritative instruction given

power · governance · jurisdiction · decree · mandate · edict · dominance · supremacy · ascendancy · prerogative

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Opposites
social rank and bearing

kinglinesslowliness

State of modest rank

peasanthood · commonness · servility · baseness · peasantry

dignity and grandeur

kinglinesssqualor

Dirty, degraded living conditions

ignobility · degradation · meekness · shabbiness · ungainliness

bearing and demeanor

kinglinessservility

Excessive willingness to please

meekness · obsequiousness · subservience · cringing · cowering

Family

king, kindly, kingdom, kinship, kindred, kindergarten, kingpin, kingly, kingship

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