Nobility vs. Nobleness — What's the Difference?

Nobility is a social class normally ranked immediately below royalty and found in some societies that have a formal aristocracy. Nobility has often been an estate of the realm that possessed more acknowledged privilege and higher social status than most other classes in society.

Possessing hereditary rank in a political system or social class derived from a feudalistic stage of a country's development.

A class of persons distinguished by high birth or rank and in Great Britain including dukes and duchesses, marquises and marchionesses, earls and countesses, viscounts and viscountesses, and barons and baronesses

Having or showing qualities of high moral character, such as courage, generosity, or honor

Noble rank or status

Proceeding from or indicative of such a character; showing magnanimity

The state or quality of being exalted in character.

Grand and stately in appearance; majestic

A noble or privileged social class, historically accompanied by a hereditary title; aristocracy.

(Chemistry) Inactive or inert.

(uncountable) The quality of being noble.

A member of the nobility.

The quality or state of being noble; superiority of mind or of character; commanding excellence; eminence.

A gold coin formerly used in England, worth half of a mark.

The state of being of high rank or noble birth; patrician dignity; antiquity of family; distinction by rank, station, or title, whether inherited or conferred.

The quality or state of being noble; nobility or grandeur.

Those who are noble; the collective body of nobles or titled persons in a state; the aristocratic and patrician class; the peerage; as, the English nobility.

The quality or state of being noble; greatness; dignity; magnanimity; elevation of mind, character, or station; nobility; grandeur; stateliness.

A privileged class holding hereditary titles

The quality of being exalted in character or ideals or conduct

The state of being of noble birth